Teachers and Teaching

Dilemmas and solutions for the classroom teacher

• Rowena Arshad
• Terry Wrigley
• Lynne Pratt

UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION Teachers want to do their best for every child, but worry about causing offence and often shy away from troublesome issues. The classroom situations and strategies presented here will help teachers negotiate their way through complex situations and bring about constructive change. This book clarifies concepts and value differences and the subtle ways in which inequality often works. Theoretical as well as practical, these chapters look from inside out from the perspective of the teacher. They cover a wide range of issues: race, gender, poverty and class, sexuality, religion, English as an Additional Language, Islamophobia, Traveller children and ADHD. The book is essential reading for student teachers, early career teachers and teacher educators, but will also be invaluable for experienced teachers as they navigate their work in an increasingly diverse society.

Perspectives on a school-led system

• Nick Sorensen

Informed by large-scale quantitative research and smaller-scale qualitative studies, Diversity in Teacher Education reveals a growing complexity in the system of teacher education in England. It finds that responsibility for educating teachers has moved away from universities, while schools have become major players.

A person-centred approach for children with special educational needs

• Nick Hammond
• Nicola Palmer

This book is about enabling children in school who have special needs to be equal partners in the team that determines their education plan, even very young children. Based on empirical research, it shows how person-centred reviews (PCRs) can, with careful and inclusive planning, secure the optimal outcomes for the child.

Essays from Quaker perspectives

• Don Rowe
• Anne Watson

Twelve Quakers describe how the values of love, truth, justice, equality, peace and community can wholly guide educational practice. Their counter-blast to the reduction of teaching to technical skills, and of child development to a series of tests, shows how these values can inspire all British school sectors, Early Years and HE. For all teachers.

Teaching well and keeping the number crunchers quiet

• Jon Berry

Schools visited by Jon Berry demonstrate that in schools which collectively abide by the principles of teaching and learning, and not marketization, students achieve well. His research shows that we can still teach with creativity, energy and innovation, and that resistance to a regime of teaching to the test is both possible and rewarding.

The real keys to school improvement

• Dean Fink

This book argues that nations with higher degrees of trust in their professional educators achieve better results for all students. But trust needs a verification system to remain robust. This compelling book provides a unique, research-based look at trust and distrust and compares their impact on school improvement across seven nations.

How global education reform has failed to crush the spirit of educators

• Jon Berry

Teachers continue to do their best for students despite clumsy government intervention fed by forty years of political and economic circumstance. Filled with the testimony of those who still teach with energy, creativity and commitment, this is a book for both serving and trainee teachers, and anyone interested in preserving a rounded education.

Lessons learnt from three decades of educational research

• Shirley Simon

In this lecture Professor Simon draws on thirty years’ experience as a teacher, teacher educator, and international researcher to argue that teachers’ professional learning can be advanced by engagement with research.

Learning Support Assistants and Their Work

• Tim O’Brien
• Philip Garner

Learning Support Assistants are taking an increasingly pivotal role in the classroom, yet their voices have remained unheard. In this book they talk about their work in various schools and settings in the UK and Europe.

Truths and Values

• Jerome Satterthwaite
• Heather Piper
• Pat Sikes
• Simon Webster

Examines the nature and role of trust in contemporary culture. Is it safe for learners – the children and adults in the world of contemporary education – to trust their teachers to care, and to tell the truth? And can teachers trust their managers and institutional practices? Volume 8 of the DPR series, Discourse, Power, Resistance.