Schools and Schooling

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.

All our geese are swans

• Tamsyn Imison
• Liz Williams
• Ruth Heilbronn

This book presents a portrait of a successful comprehensive school, between the years 1980 and 2000. It illustrates how education could be broad-based, holistic, and creative, enabling children to love learning and develop as all-round people, in addition to passing examinations.

• Helen E. Lees

The book describes and analyses how silence – cost-free and educationally significant – is used in certain schools to improve the students’ experience and learning. Awareness of silence, developed through meditation, quiet spaces and silent moments, enhances democratic and reflective practices and is a beneficial educational tool.

Tracking Children’s Identity and Wellbeing Through the School Years

• Jo Warin

A study that portrays five children as they grow up from age 3 to 17. It offers a view of: their intrapersonal development; how they construct their personal identity as they progress through school; who they believe themselves to be; how they have changed; and, how school experiences have contributed to their narratives of self.