Teaching of a Specific Subject

Many pre-service and beginning early childhood teachers question if critical literacy is do-able with young children, particularly in the current t...

Talking Beyond the Page shows how different kinds of picturebooks can be used with children of all ages and highlights the positive educational gai...

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarg...

Composing Our Future is the ideal book for music teacher-educators seeking to learn more about composition education. While much has been written o...

Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research, The Multilingual Turn offers a critique of, and alternative to, still-do...

What kind of social studies knowledge can stimulate a critical and ethical dialog with the past and present? "Re-Membering" History in Student and ...

Increasing the mastery of reading and text literacy in the general population is one of the most important challenges faced by both developed and d...

It has never been easier or more fun for students to compose, improvise, arrange, and produce music and music-related projects than with today's te...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, p...

Teaching Poetry is an indispensible source of guidance, confidence and ideas for all those new to the secondary English classroom. Written by exper...

English Homework for Key Stage 2 is a unique resource for busy teachers - a selection of ‘pencil-free’, hands-on activities, aligned with the Natio...

The first few years of teaching are critical to the professional development of effective English teachers. In these crucial years, new teachers es...

Praise for previous editions:- ‘A wealth of theory, research, practical advice, case studies and tasks in one volume…Indispensable for both HEI tut...

The importance of cognition in teaching, learning, and research in music education has been championed by individuals in the arts, led by Elliot Ei...

Learning, Problem Solving, and Mindtools is inspired by the substantial body of learning research by David H. Jonassen in the areas of mind tools a...

Teaching the Dimensions of Literacy provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy cla...

What is creativity and how do we teach it? The Really Useful Creativity Book provides approaches and ideas that will enable children to develop the...

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism...

As middle school math teachers shift to the Common Core State Standards, the question remains: What do the standards actually look like in the clas...

Expecting students to jump right into a rigorous literature discussion is not always realistic. Students need scaffolding so that they will be more...

The Common Core is placing a heavier emphasis on nonfiction, but that doesn't mean you have to give up your literature lessons! In this book, Engli...

Technology isn’t just fun to use in the classroom, it can also make real improvements in students’ literacy development. In this book, authors Hila...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the ‘people...