Schools and Schooling

An investigation

• Helena McVeigh

Helena McVeigh draws on extensive practice as an inspector and consultant, and on interviews with HMIs and primary teachers, to chart the development of Ofsted and investigate its influence on primary teaching in England.

The struggle to establish school science in England

• Edgar Jenkins

Science for All is a thoroughly researched account of the long battle to establish school science in England, from its introduction to the classroom in the mid-nineteenth century to the launch of the National Curriculum in 1989. It addresses the underlying question of what school science is for and reveals when, how and why the answer has changed.

• Maurice Carder

By 2020 there will be more than 10,000 international schools with 5 million students. The authors argue for a model that does not assimilate to any political system; where motivation can come from areas other than wanting to belong to a specific culture; and where students can develop all their languages equitably while they learn the curriculum.

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.