Schools and Schooling

Policy and practice

• Martin Mills
• Gillean McCluskey

The book explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers and those working and studying in such schools. Accounts of first-hand experience working and leading in alternative schools or at policy level across eight national contexts bring alive their strengths and the challenges that can arise.

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.

What the research says

• Rosemary Luckin

Educational technology is growing fast, with educational institutions more than ever looking for the best ways to use to support learning. This is an accessible introduction to the issues important for teachers and other educational professionals.

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.

• 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.

• Richard Riddell

Interviews with senior managers in schools, academy chains and regions indicate that the developing regional organization of schools is a more consistent context for reducing longstanding disparities in pupil attainment than the declining local authority systems it replaces. Long-term school partnerships can deal better with inequity in schooling.

• Lynne Rogers

This book examines disengagement from education among young people aged 11 to 19 and its long-term consequences, discussing how to prevent it and re-engage drop-outs in education.

Writings of Anna Craft

• Anna Craft

This memorial volume of ten key writings by the late Anna Craft, chosen and introduced by her colleagues, illuminate five themes that illustrate the development of this important educationalist’s innovative ideas, including possibility thinking and creativity, wisdom and ethics.

Lessons from fifty years of Scottish comprehensive schooling

• Daniel Murphy
• Linda Croxford
• Cathy Howieson
• David Raffe

Comprehensive education began in the UK 50 years ago and, unlike in England, still commands widespread support in Scotland. This account of the Scottish system’s development, compared with elsewhere in the UK, shows how Scotland has benefited from an inclusive system of schooling and offers lessons for the future of education.