Children’s Literature about Refugees

A catalyst in the classroom

• Julia Hope

Julia Hope describes her study on how primary school teachers use certain picturebooks and storybooks that relate refugee children’s experiences, so that young refugees feel validated and their classmates can understand something of what they’ve been through. It gives teachers both pedagogical support and the resources to tackle this urgent topic. 

Civil Society Organizations in Turbulent Times

A gilded web?

• Linda Milbourne
• Ursula Murray

Why have civil society organizations become trapped in a gilded web of privatized, neo-liberal arrangements, reinforcing the systems they were established to reform? Drawing on research from diverse fields, this book aims to reawaken the critical voices that could challenge the growing inequalities and failures of current social systems.

Preventing Dropout

Lessons from Europe

• Christopher Arnold
• Tracey Baker

Across Europe, the number of young people dropping out of education, training or employment is cause for concern. Case studies from five countries - the UK, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ireland - reveal the significant benefits from early identification of, and proactive intervention with, the groups most vulnerable to dropout.

Family Jigsaws

Grandmothers as the missing piece shaping bilingual children’s learner identities

• Mahera Ruby

The book is the first to reveal the ability of young bilinguals to become flexible learners, and the first to show how it is their interactions with their grandmothers - who often speak no English - that most enhance and extend their educational and cultural experiences. The implications for policy, practice and pedagogy are profound.

Juggling Higher Education Study and Family Life

• Louise Webber

Women with families face particular challenges when they undertake Higher Education, such as coping with the demands of study, new family routines, and the changed identity when mother becomes student. This book is a valuable guide for women in similar situations, and will enhance the understanding of tutors, lecturers and policymakers.

Invisibly Blighted

The digital erosion of childhood

• Sandra Leaton Gray
• Andy Phippen

This book is a manifesto for a different digital future for children, in which their rights are respected and their identities are free. Aimed at anyone who has sensed the cultural shift in childhood currently taking place, this book helps readers think more deeply about what it means to be a child in the digital world today.

Harold Rosen

Writings on life, language and learning, 1958–2008

• John Richmond

Harold Rosen was a leader of thought in the world of English teaching in the second half of the twentieth century. He and his colleagues forged and sustained a new understanding of the purpose and possibilities of the subject English within the school curriculum. This tribute to Rosen’s life and work contains over 50 pieces of his writing.

Muslim Mothers and their Children’s Schooling

• Suma Din

This book brings the voices of Muslim mothers into the discourse on parent–school relations. Over 50 women from a wide range of backgrounds and social class speak about their identities, experiences and challenges as they choose state schools and support their children through their education in Britain. Essential reading for teachers.

Guiding Readers – Layers of Meaning

A handbook for teaching reading comprehension to 7-11-year-olds

• Wayne Tennent
• David Reedy
• Angela Hobsbaum
• Nikki Gamble

Reading comprehension is so much more than just reading words, and this book explains how to develop all aspects of it for pupils aged 7–11. Written by top experts in the field, it includes eleven in-depth case studies – taken from real-life classrooms – of lessons on fiction and non-fiction, poetry and picture books, advertising and film.