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  • Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom

    A handbook for teachers and practitioners

    by Ed Baines, Peter Blatchford, Peter Kutnick ...
    Series series Improving Practice (TLRP)
    Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom, 2nd ed. is designed to enhance teachers’ and teaching assistants’ confidence in engaging their children in effective group work, allowing for more active participation, more on-task focus and higher levels of achievement.This accessible second edition is packed full of valuable strategies for teachers and fun activities for children, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants

    Guidance for school leaders and teachers

    by Rob Webster, Anthony Russell, Peter Blatchford ...
    Teaching assistants are an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown schools are not making the most of this valued resource. Evidence shows the more support pupils receive from TAs, the less academic progress they made. Yet the reason for this has little to do with TAs. It is decisions made about them by school leaders and teachers that best explain this ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Child at School

    Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition

    by Peter Blatchford, Anthony D. Pellegrini, Ed Baines ...
    Series series International Texts in Developmental Psychology
    What is the nature of children’s social life in school?How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school? This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers to these questions by offering an integrated perspective on children’s social interactions and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Class Size

    Eastern and Western perspectives

    Edited by Peter Blatchford, Kam Wing Chan, Maurice Galton, Kwok Chan Lai, John Chi-Kin Lee ...
    Series series Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
    Much debate, research and commentary about class sizes in schools is limited because of an exclusive concern with class size and pupil academic attainment, and a neglect of classroom processes, which might help explain class size effects (or lack of them). Very little is known about the central question: how can teachers make the most of class size changes? Much of the commentary on class size ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Breaktime and the School

    Understanding and Changing Playground Behaviour

    Edited by Peter Blatchford, Sonia Sharp ...
    Breaktime in the school is a period when pupils learn social skills they will need in the world outside. But it can also be an occasion for aggression, harassment and bullying. Breaktime and the School gives an accessible account of the latest research into children's play and behaviour. The contributors show how an understanding of the area can inform practical action in designing an environment ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants

    How research challenges practice and policy

    by Peter Blatchford, Anthony Russell, Rob Webster ...
    Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils.This key and timely text examines the impact of TAs on pupils’ ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Social Life in School

    Pupils' experiences of breaktime and recess from 7 to 16

    by Peter Blatchford ...
    Are breaktimes really just a time of violence and bullying that could be better used for working? Based on a unique and fascinating longitudinal study of a group of pupils from primary to secondary school, the author of this timely new book proposes an alternative view. He believes that breaktime plays an important part in children's social development, and through his gathering of pupil's own ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Young Children at School in the Inner City

    by Barbara Tizard, Peter Blatchford, Jessica Burke, Clare Farquhar, Ian Plewis ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children’s skills on ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms

    The SPRinG Approach

    by Peter Kutnick, Peter Blatchford ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRinG (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enhance the learning potential of pupils working in classroom groups by actively involving teachers in a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Social Work with Children and Families

    Getting into Practice Third Edition

    by Caroline Hickman, Professor Ian Butler ...
    This key text covers the knowledge and skills that social workers need to get into practice with children and families.The book covers core components of child and family work such as building effective relationships, assessment, child protection practice and working with the law. Clear and accessible, this practical book features case studies, questions and exercises throughout. This third ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Classrooms as Learning Communities

    What's In It For Schools?

    by Chris Watkins ...
    Series series What's in it for schools?
    In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms through:an integration of what's best in learning and what's best in the social life of classroomsa vision of the role of the teacher that is more creative ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Student Behaviour in Schools

    Exploring Theory and Developing Practice

    by Mere Berryman, Ted Glynn, Janice Wearmouth ...
    The authors of this comprehensive text discuss the root causes of disruptive behaviour, tackle assessment issues and develop effective intervention strategies that will be of practical use to teachers and other educators. Whilst theorising behaviour management from a range of perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioural and socio-cultural, the authors remain firmly focused on practical issues of ... Read more

    $75.99 USD