Books

Bullying in Single-sex Schools

• Celestine Keise

Schools set the behavioural standards for students which, in turn, have obvious effects on achievement. The author offers an account of the actions taken by the schools that significantly reduced levels of bullying and offers important recommendations for others concerned to do the same

• Mike Kivi

Here is Mrs Dover in her Rover, sorting out the school day, Mrs Kelly quoting Keats and Shelley, gentle in her mist of laudanum and Gordon’s gin, Reebok-shod, hairy-legged teachers at the school fête – all coping as best they can with assessment, league tables and other current educational fads!

• John Eggleston
• etc.

This report of the work of self help groups of unemployed black adults was funded by the Further Education Unit of DES. It shows how effectively these groups are able to generate employment capabilities for their members and offers recommendations for the further development of such initiatives. Recommended reading for all concerned with equal opportunities in further and adult education. Includes six case studies of groups.

• E.C. Wragg

Yet another sparkling selection of Wragg’s pungent polemic pieces. This fifth volume contains all of his most acclaimed pieces of the past year including the famous Mad Curriculum Disease commentary on the National Curriculum.

Classroom Mathematics for Equality and Justice

• Sharan-Jeet Shan
• Peter Bailey

This book illustrates how current teaching methodology and school management and the bias in existing textbooks can and often does disadvantage black, working class and girl students, and how often this might be changed. The authors have gathered their mathematics from sources across the world and from a multiplicity of disciplines: from global statistics, from architectural principles and from art forms. They will keep students and their teachers fascinated, motivated and learning the mathematics that our technological age – and the national curriculum – demands. For in maths lessons the students are the Multiple Factors in the equation of the world’s economy, resources and growth.

• Margaret Maden
• John Tomlinson

Two of Britain’s foremost experts on educational administration analyse the practical implications of the 1988 Act and map out detailed strategies for its implementation by local education authorities and schools.

• E.C. Wragg

The fourth and finest selection of Ted Wragg’s pungent polemics on the state of education in modern Britain. His most acclaimed pieces from 1989 are here and together the sum creates an impact even greater than the parts. Ted Wragg chronicles the educational history of our times with greater effect and vastly more entertaining than any scholar before him.

Technical Paper 7

• Edward Melhuish
• Kathy Sylva
• Pam Sammons
• Iram Siraj-Blatchford
• Brenda Taggart

Technical Paper 7 of the EPPE Project series considers the relationship of social development and cognitive attainment to the range of variables available in the study that measure characteristics of the children, their parents, their family, their home and childcare history.

Study of Children’s Toys, Games and Puzzles

• Bob Dixon

The first-ever examination of children’s playthings, by the author of Catching them Young. Essential reading for parents, educators, and all concerned with the well being of our young.

• Delwyn P. Tattum
• David A. Lane

The solutions offered independently by the contributors challenge the stereotype assumptions about bullies and victims and are essentially practical, suggesting strategies for establishing an ethos by which schools can become safe places for pupils, parents and teachers.