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It remains the case that certain young people from particular backgrounds consistently fail to meet their potential. The strong link between social disadvantage and educational underperformance is difficult to break, despite the attempts of policy makers and practitioners to intervene. Leader in educational contexts know only too well the difficulties that many young people face in securing levels of achievement that other young people take fo...

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This lecture argues that contemporary geography is a school subject of great significance and has a lot to offer children and young people growing up in a confusing, rapidly changing and dangerous world.

This book presents fourteen personal real life stories from people at various stages of retiring. These inspirational and illustrated stories will encourage readers to hold up these experiences to their own, learn from comparisons and similarities and extend their own thinking.

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In the government, media, and public mind the relationship between race and education is overwhelmingly negative. In Britain, and other countries, when the talk is of black and minority ethnics in schools most think of underachievement, rising exclusions and low aspirations. However, research evidence shows that people of color, particularly women, have a positive and enduring relationship with education.

Studies of representative community samples of familiesnormative studiesoffer the potential to learn how families function and to investigate family impacts and influences on children.

Roger Beard traces the historical development of policy and practice in areas such as reading development, phonics and writing, and pinpoints interdisciplinary research as the key to addressing complex educational issues that transcend the conceptual reach of a single discipline.

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This lecture explores how globalization is changing education and what this means for comparative study. In an age of increasing social fragmentation, Andy Green argues, comparative analysis of education and society has never been more important.

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Many conflicting demands are made on school leaders in the twenty-first century, and there is an expectation of fast responses to those demands. This book is written for leadership practitioners and those who work with them, in order to encourage values-led responses to conflicting and tumultuous pressures.