Primary & Middle Schools

This edited volume takes the US-derived concept and praxis of funds of knowledge and applies it globally to critically analyse current education in...

This book is the first of its kind to showcase a range of fresh and expert perspectives on decolonising history education in Australia. The researc...

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for appr...

This fully updated third edition of Teaching and Learning with Technologies in the Primary School introduces practising and student teachers to the...

An outreach teacher’s job is full of challenges, questions and surprises! Once Upon an Outreach Teacher is a collection of stories about young peop...

This book provides an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and practitioners working directly with gifted individuals to engage with and exa...

Featuring a broad swathe of academic research and perspectives from international contributors, this book will capture and share important lessons ...

How to Teach Fiction Writing is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's storywri...

This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their ...

Updated in response to the 2000 revision of the National Curriculum, this text explores ways in which curriculum balance and coherence can be achie...

Reconceptualizing Early Career Teacher Mentoring as Reggio-Inspired presents an innovative approach to early career art teacher mentoring informed ...

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for appr...

When peer-on-peer sexual abuse becomes commonplace in schools, society has a problem. The toxic attitudes and behaviour some boys display towards g...

This text offers a rationale for the popular idea among teachers and researchers that young children should be taught critical thinking and argumen...

Based on the fieldwork carried out at two elementary schools, Merits School and Pioneer School, in northeastern China, the monograph details how lo...

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom. After introduct...

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series. The new editions are revised in line with the new literacy framework and ...

Let’s be realistic here. Ordinary K-12 educators don’t know what "cybersecurity" is and could probably care less about incorporating it into their ...

In this book, authors Murphy and O’Neill propose a new way forward, moving away from high-stakes, test-based writing assessment and the curriculum ...

When schools, libraries, daycares, and playgrounds closed during the pandemic, children were forced to spend a lot of time at home. These closures ...

Learn how to become a more effective literacy coach to ensure lasting changes in teaching and learning at your school. In this second edition, lite...

This book is the first of its kind to help practitioners specifically develop children's language skills in Science. The book incudes: guidelines t...

Designed specifically for teachers with little subject knowledge or experience in history, this book provides trainees with the confidence they nee...

This textbook is a comprehensive resource for teaching multicultural children’s literature. Providing foundational information on how and why to in...

This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their ...

Rather than reserving the teaching of Black history to Black history month, Black narratives deserve to be seen and integrated into every aspect of...

This book offers practical guidance for teachers using the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stages 1 and 2, based on the six categories of non-fic...

This book brings together a collection of essays on the teaching of writing. It is a companion to Prue Goodwin’s The Literate Classroom and The Art...

This new edition takes into account advances in software and technology such as interactive whiteboards and digital cameras, focusing upon how thes...

This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. It considers how the s...

Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo stud...

This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. It considers how the s...

The growing economic competition among the world's industrialized and developing nations has spurred comparisons and examinations of national schoo...

Updated and expanded, this second edition satisfies the same philosophical objective as the first -- to show the importance of problem posing. Alth...

Full of school-based examples supplied by practicing teachers, this accessible text: encourages trainees to "think beyond the standards" promotes t...