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  • Successful Leadership in the Early Years

    A practical guide to leadership strategies that can have proven results

    June O'Sullivan explores the concept of leadership, particularly with regards to leading Early Years centres.In line with government initiatives, there is growing pressure within the early years sector to create staff who can lead different types of childcare and family settings in order to address two main government targets. Firstly, reducing poverty among families with small children and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife

    Narrated by Róisín Rankin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. Eliza is proud of her husband and his promotion to Principal Keeper and is eager to support him in his work and fulfil her duty as a good wife and mother. But life in this extreme location is challenging. The island is 54 acres of jagged ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Sky Is Not Enough

    Narrated by Jacqueline Milne ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 4 min

    In 1928, Sophie Peirce-Evans marries Sir James Heath. With her new titled status as Lady Heath, she embarks on her most daring adventure: a solo flight in a biplane from Cape Town to London. Already a trailblazer – a world-record athlete, Britain's first woman to parachute from a plane and first to earn a commercial pilot's license – she is determined to prove that women belong in aviation and to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care

    An Introduction

    "Bravo! This book brilliantly meets the moment." – Julie Nicholson, Mills College and Co-Director, Center for Equity in Early Childhood, USA"A lovely insightful exploration of leadership through a social justice lens." – Lord Victor Adebowale, UKAcross the world, organisations in early childhood education (ECE) face major organisational challenges, including staff recruitment, retention and ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Well-being in the Early Years

    Series series Critical Approaches to the Early Years
    A multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to the well-being of young children to support child development modules on a variety of programmes. The emotional, physical and social well-being of young children is a prime area of the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and is at the forefront of current policy and debate. This text goes beyond issues of safeguarding to address how the well-being ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Early Years

    Politics, Pedagogy and Plain Speaking

    Series series Corwin Ltd
    **Nursery World Award finalist**From a leading voice in the early years community comes an accessible, dip in, dip out guide to all the hot topics in the sector. Born from questions raised on her early years blog, June O’Sullivan brings a combination of advice, good humour and plain speaking to address themes that come up time and time again.With entries ranging from apprenticeships to inspection, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Education

    Conversations From Across the World

    Edited by Dr Mona Sakr, June O'Sullivan ...
    Pedagogical leadership views leadership as something separate from formal authority or qualifications, seeing educators' understanding, interpretation and passion as the key lever for continuous improvement in early childhood education (ECE). This book shows how effective pedagogical leadership can create the right conditions for quality ECE provision, to increase motivation and engagement among ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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    This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career.Topics covered include:- Reaching out to young people- Developing young people′s participation- Working in different settings- Bringing young people together- Practice placementsThe new edition will be essential reading ... Read more

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  • Leading and Managing Schools

    School leadership and management are fundamental components of school improvement. This is the first study of its kind to relate the principles of effective leadership to the broad spectrum of school life in Ireland.A key resource for school leaders in their personal and professional study, this book critically appraises issues in leading and managing schools. The editors bring together an array ... Read more

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  • Youth Work

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    Professional practice is at the heart of youth work training but integrating the theory learned in class with the reality of placements can sometimes require extra support. This comprehensive textbook is designed to help students working with young people become competent and ethical practitioners, able to reflect on their learning and interventions in young people’s lives.Divided into three parts ... Read more

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  • Professional Development, Reflection and Enquiry

    ′Wow, this book has some inspiring ideas... It comes at a perfect time as schools try to mesh school improvement with performance management, new standards for various career stages and staff development... Well written, with an attractive layout and a consistently clear voice, it draws on wide and up-to-date research and writing from all parts of the United Kingdom... There are no easy answers in ... Read more

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  • Education Forward

    Moving Schools into the Future

    Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing their dissatisfaction with education systems that are no longer fit for purpose. Too many of our young ... Read more

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