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Jean Mercer

Pbk | 256pp | 9781526421128 | 12/05/2018A$69 | NZ$79 | Sage Publications Ltd

Child Development: Concepts and Theories takes a step back to focus just on the key concepts of child development that all students must learn. With this text, their first encounters with theories and their applications will mean that they can move on with a firm foundation in child development. Central to this, is understanding how these theories or concepts are applied in the real world and how psychologists engage with them in research. This text gives clear and detailed examples to bring the subject to life.

Child Development: Concepts and Theories

Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch

Pbk | 744pp | 9781506398938 | 1/02/2019A$217 | NZ$255 | Sage Publications Inc

Chronologically organised, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence presents topics within the field of child development through unique and highly engaging Active Learning opportunities. The Active Learning features integrated within the book foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students. The in-text pedagogical features and the accompanying ancillary package will help students discover the excitement of studying child development and equip them with skills they can use long after completing the course.

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Jean Mercer's Critical Thinking in Child Development: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 4e, uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers through thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The text can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organised child development texts.

Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings 4ed

Nicholas D. Young, Elizabeth Jean and Anne

Hbk | 168pp | 9781475842524 | 18/12/2018A$44.99 | NZ$49.99 | Rowman and Littlefield Inc

From Cradle to Classroom: A Guide to Special Education for Young Children is a text written on behalf of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to ensure they are ready for formal education when they reach age 5. It reflects a keen understanding that early interventions are most effective in reducing the potential for special education or other support services later in a child’s development.

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From Cradle to Classroom: A Guide to Special Education for Young Children

Sara Knight

Pbk | 176pp | 9781446255315 | 30/06/2013A$59.99 | NZ$69 | Sage Publications Ltd

This bestselling text explores how the Forest School approach can be easily and effectively incorporated into early years practice. Expanding on aspects of Forest School teaching, and drawing on new developments and policy changes within the field, this new edition also includes a new chapter on working with parents, greater coverage of the 0-2 age range, new case studies to aid learning, and coverage of international approaches to Forest School.

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Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years 2ed

Nicole Megan Edwards

Pbk | 224pp | 9781681251929 | 17/05/2018A$68 | NZ$79 | Brookes Publishing Co.

Early Social-Emotional Development: Your Guide to Promoting Children`s Positive Behavior guides early childhood educators to facilitate positive social-emotional development and behavior in the first five years of life. It presents general principles, research-based strategies, and concrete examples situated within the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework and the Pyramid Model. This practical and engaging resource helps birth-five trainees in any setting work successfully to foster social-emotional growth.

Early Social-Emotional Development: Your Guide to Promoting Children's Positive Behavior

Damien Fitzgerald and Heloise Maconochie


Student-focused and designed to enhance critical thinking, this new core textbook is mapped to early childhood degrees with a focus on seeing children in the context of the word they live in. It sees the child as developing within the context of the family, community and broader social and cultural environment. The material comes alive with full colour features, clearly marked key terms and additional online resources.

Early Childhood Studies: A Student's Guide

Guy Roberts-Holmes


This bestselling guide to undertaking your Early Years research project takes the student on a practical step-by-step journey. Breaking down each section into accessible and digestible topics, and accompanied by a multitude of practical examples, case studies, research summaries and key points, the author brings this process to life. From learning how to structure and organise your project, through to the final presentation and written report of your findings, this is the essential guide and companion for students throughout their early childhood and social science courses.

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Gillian Pugh and Bernadette Duffy


If you are a student in the early years sector, you need to develop a rounded understanding of key issues in this fast-moving field. This edition provides a critical examination of the essential issues in early years policy and practice. With contributions from highly regarded practitioners and researchers, this text balances theory and practical concerns.

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Contemporary Issues in the Early Years 6ed

Rory McDowall Clark

Pbk | 200pp | 9781473944558 | 12/11/2016A$49.99 | NZ$59.99 | Sage Publications Ltd

Childhood can only be understood in relation to the multitude of social factors which surround it. This text is written for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines. It offers an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. The text explores childhood from different contexts: from the child within the family, to the global perspective, and the child's own perspective.

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Childhood in Society for the Early Years 3ed

Sonia Mainstone-Cotton

Pbk | 120pp | 9781785924699 | 18/04/2019A$29.99 | NZ$35.99 | Jessica Kingsley Publishing

It is widely accepted that listening to and involving children in decisions about their care, learning and development can significantly improve the quality of early years provision. This text gives practical guidance on how to do this effectively. Starting with a discussion about why we listen to children and the policies around this, the text explains how we can involve children in decision-making that is appropriate to their age and level of understanding.

Listening to Young Children in Early Years Settings: A Practical Guide

Alma Fleet, Catherine Patterson and Janet


Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other. This text draws on the projects and experiences of senior researchers from nations including Australia, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. to highlight multiple approaches to pedagogical documentation. The text offers guidance, support and inspiration on how to implement meaningful and sustainable child-focused observation.

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Pedagogical Documentation in Early Years Practice: Seeing Through Multiple Perspectives

Penny Mukherji and Deborah Albon


Exploring research methods in the context of early childhood, this popular guide approaches complex ideas in a clear style linking directly to practice. It covers all students need to know about undertaking research in early childhood, including action research, ethics and carrying out a research project. 'Research in Focus' boxes look at international case studies and examples of research to show what it looks like in the real world and understand the effects and implications. Chapters have been reorganised to better suit the learning journey.

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Research Methods in Early Childhood: An Introductory Guide 3ed

Sara Knight


This text will gives the reader the confidence to offer children in early years settings adventurous and challenging outdoor activities, as well as ways to utilise natural resources to their best advantage. There is clear, practical advice on what to do, which is underpinned by the theory that supports the benefits of this approach. Examples from settings are included, to illustrate best practice and to show how things can be achieved.

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Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play: Learning from Forest Schools

Polly Bolshaw and Jo Josephidou


What does the term ‘research’ in early childhood actually mean? What does research involve, and how do you go about doing it? This text explains exactly what ‘research’ is; it explores key ideas, themes and terminology to provide you with a clear understanding of its importance to your early years or early childhood studies degree. Laying the foundations to develop your confidence in talking about research and making links between theory and practice, this text will support you as you begin your research journey into the world of early years.

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Pbk | 336pp | 9781907359118 | 1/05/2011A$59.99 | NZ$69 | Hawthorn Press

Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the inter-relationships between the personal, social, environmental, and 'spiritual'. It helps us to understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to help enrich their learning with social ecology insights and principles.

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Karl Aubrey and Alison Riley


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Bob Bates


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Susan English, Janice M. Sabatine and Phil

Pbk | 481pp | 9780826180087 | 1/01/2019A$99 | NZ$117 | Springer Publishing Co

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Kimberly Gibbons, Sarah Brown and Bradley

Pbk | 220pp | 9781462536832 | 5/12/2018A$67 | NZ$78 | Guilford Publications Inc

This accessible volume helps school leadership teams accomplish the crucial yet often overlooked task of improving universal instruction. Strong universal instruction reduces the numbers of PreK–12 students who may need additional services and supports. Providing clear action steps and encouraging guidance, the expert authors present a roadmap for evaluating the effectiveness of Tier 1, identifying barriers to successful implementation, and making and sustaining instructional improvements.


Effective Universal Instruction: An Action-Oriented Approach to Improving Tier 1

Brad Jackson and Ken Parry


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Margaret Preedy, Nigel Bennett and Christi


This text explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The text will encourage you to positively problematise the field and reflect on current debates and issues. A essential resource for students of postgraduate level courses in educational leadership and management.

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Gary Jones


There is a vast amount of research on what goes on in schools, but how can school leaders sort credible findings from dubious claims and use these to make informed decisions that benefit their schools? How can abstract ideas from research be translated into dynamic plans for action? This text is a practical guide to evidence-based school leadership demonstrating the benefits that can be gained from engaging with robust educational research and offering clear guidance on applying meaningful lessons to practice.

Evidence-based School Leadership and Management: A practical guide

Frank Del Favero

Pbk | 110pp | 9781475839098 | 8/02/2019A$39.99 | NZ$44.99 | Rowman and Littlefield Inc

The purpose of Instructional Leadership Knowledge and Skills for K-12 Success is to provide the students with the foundational knowledge and skills that are necessary to become an effective educational leader. Educational leader preparation programs will find that this book could be assigned as a textbook for aspiring educational leaders as an informative guide so that they can better understand the characteristics and concepts of effective school leadership.

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Michael Horvat, Luke Kelly, Martin Block a

Pbk | 296pp | 9781492543800 | 7/02/2018A$116 | NZ$137 | Human Kinetics Inc

In Developmental and Adapted Physical Activity Assessment, you will learn about the assessment process, the tests available, how to administer them, and how to interpret the results and program accordingly. You will also learn how to assess the whole student by examining their social, affective, physical, and cognitive abilities.

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Michelle Grenier and Lauren Lieberman


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Keith Davids, Chris Button and Simon Benne

Hbk | 264pp | 9780736036863 | 18/09/2007A$157 | NZ$184 | Human Kinetics Inc

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition: A Constraints-Led Approach provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the constraints-led perspective, a recognised theory in motor learning and control. It is the first text to outline the development of a conceptual model of coordination and control within a multidisciplinary framework, capturing the various interlocking scales of analysis (e.g., neural, behavioural, psychological) and the many subsystems (e.g., perceptual and movement) involved in producing behaviour.

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Joseph Winnick and David Porretta


The sixth edition of Adapted Physical Education and Sport details current inclusion practices, helps develop in developing IEPs consistent with legislation, enhances sport participation, and includes a web resource with 26 video clips for administering the new Brockport Physical Fitness Test.Ebook Available

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Lauren Lieberman and Cathy Houston-Wilson


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If you want to know how to be the best, you learn from the best. Jayne Greenberg and Judy LoBianco head a sterling list of contributors who have taught at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels in urban, suburban, and rural settings. Together, these contributors expound on the roles and responsibilities of physical education administrators through both theoretical and practical lenses. The result is a text that will be highly useful to undergraduate students looking to enter the field.

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Alan Launder and Wendy Piltz


Play Practice: Engaging and Developing Skilled Players, Second Edition, provides an alternative to traditional sport instruction. This innovative and authentic approach to teaching sports combines contemporary theory with the experience of practical and reflective work in real sport environments. Co-authors Alan Launder and Wendy Piltz, both with wide-ranging experience as players, teachers, and coaches, expand and update the play practice approach from the first edition and show how it can be used to help improve sport skills for players of all ages and abilities.


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It’s never been more challenging to teach physical education to children and adolescents. Between managing difficult behaviour and adapting lessons for students with diverse needs, teachers have their hands full. Teaching Children and Adolescents Physical Education: Becoming a Master Teacher has been helping both new and experienced physical educators meet these challenges for many years, and this revised edition has been updated to address many of the new challenges that have emerged in the past decade.

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Complete Guide to Sport Education, Third Edition, offers the research-backed Sport Education model for use with students from the early elementary grades through the university years. The text is thoroughly revised, has six new chapters, and is aligned with the SHAPE standards and other countries’ learning objectives.

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Terry Long and Terry Robertson


Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation, Second Edition, provides students with evidence-based information on fundamental concepts in therapeutic recreation to help them explore the various career possibilities in the field.

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Catherine Carden


When learning to teach, practical experience in the classroom is essential as is learning from others and being able to reflect on your own learning and performance. Equally important is the ability to critically evaluate learning and teaching. In fact, in teacher training, the questions are just as important as the answers. This new, extensive, core text includes full coverage of the content of professional studies modules and goes beyond to support trainees on placements and in their learning on the course.

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Derek Haylock and Ralph Manning

Kit | 504pp | 9781526455840 | 8/12/2018A$79 | NZ$97 | Sage Publications Ltd

To help teachers confidently teach mathematics in primary school, this text develops their understanding of mathematical concepts and processes and how children learn them. This sixth edition of Derek Haylock's popular text has been updated to highlight mastery approaches to teaching mathematics and how to apply these in the classroom. Every chapter integrates children's learning, classroom practice, and teacher subject knowledge, making this the ultimate primary mathematics resource for teacher training and beyond.

Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers 6ed (Paperback and eBook)

Colin Howard, Maddie Burton, Denisse Lever


The mental health and emotional wellbeing of children is fantastically important. It has a huge impact on learning and development and there is increasing recognition of the importance of mental health for everyone. Despite this, many school staff feel overwhelmed and lack confidence when it comes to dealing with these issues in their classrooms. This new text is written for all those

training to work in primary schools. It helps to develop effective and preventative strategies for supporting children who are struggling to manage the school day.

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Helen Caldwell and Sue Pope


How can teachers harness the power of STEM education and learning in the primary curriculum? This text gives practical STEM ideas for the classroom and supports teachers to make the most of opportunities for rich STEM experiences across the primary curriculum. This text: explores the nature of STEM education and why it matters; highlights the opportunities for STEM learning across the curriculum; supports teachers to design and innovate engaging STEM learning experiences; and includes a chapter on STEM in the early years.

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Mike Carroll and Margaret McCulloch


This textbook gives you guidance and insights into the knowledge, values and commitments necessary to succeed in the primary classroom, supported by links to theory and research literature and realistic scenarios you may encounter as a new teacher. Fully updated throughout, this is essential reading for professional studies modules on primary initial teacher education courses.

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Gillie E J Bolton and Russell Delderfield


Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry. This popular text has been used worldwide in various disciplines including education, social work, business and management, medicine and healthcare and is essential reading for students.

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Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession. Research shows that there is a recruitment and retention crisis with over a third of the school, FE and HE profession expecting to leave by 2020. This is a practical guide that will help trainee teachers prepare for what is, undoubtedly, a demanding job. It supports new teachers to be aware of themselves and to understand the schools and teaching sector so they better anticipate pressures and find their own way forward.

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Tony Bush, Les Bell and David Middlewood


This new edition brings together leading authorities from across the globe to provide a truly international perspective into educational leadership and management in school and post-school sectors. Covering both developed and developing countries, it is underpinned by a substantially updated analysis of theory, research, policy and practice. This is essential reading for anyone taking courses in educational leadership and management at postgraduate level.

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Principles of Educational Leadership and Management 3ed

Robert Lichtenstein and Bruce M. Ecker


Assessment provides rich opportunities for understanding the needs of children and adolescents, yet reports are often hard for parents, teachers, and other consumers to comprehend and utilise. This book provides step-by-step guidelines for creating psychoeducational and psychological reports that communicate findings clearly, promote collaboration, and maximise impact. Effective practices for written and oral reporting are presented, including what assessment data to emphasise, how to organise reports and convey test results, and how to craft useful recommendations.


High-Impact Assessment Reports for Children and Adolescents: A Consumer-Responsive Approach

Lisa M. Hagermoser Sanetti and Melissa A.


Evidence-based interventions only benefit learners when they are implemented fully. Yet many educators struggle with successful implementation. This unique book gives practitioners a research-based framework for working with PreK–12 educators to support the effective delivery of academic, behavioural, and social–emotional interventions.

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Supporting Successful Interventions in Schools: Tools to Plan, Evaluate, and Sustain Effective Implementation

Damian Murchan and Gerry Shiel


This text is a one-stop-shop for understanding assessment in schools. It covers formative and summative approaches used across primary and secondary education, supporting a balanced overview with policy examples drawn from the UK and wider international contexts. Designed as a pragmatic handbook for those training to teach, it discusses key principles of assessment, before providing guidance on developing and carrying out assessment in the classroom, and looking at how assessment information can be used to benefit your teaching.


Understanding and Applying Assessment in Education

Greg Ashman


Drawing on years of experience teaching in a diverse range of schools and powered by a nuanced understanding of educational research, this text presents the most vital ideas that you need to know in order to succeed in teaching. Find out how to avoid common mistakes and challenge some of the myths about what good teaching really is. Evidence-informed, the text explores major issues you will encounter in schools, including the science of learning, classroom management, explicit forms of teaching, and smart ways to evaluate the potential of technology.

The Truth about Teaching: An evidence-informed guide for new teachers

Jeroen Huisman and Malcolm Tight

Hbk | 256pp | 9781787692787 | 12/11/2018A$132 | NZ$154 | Emerald Publishing Ltd

Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies are being applied. This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, topic modelling, geometric data analysis, creativity and playfulness, longitudinal network analysis, grounded theory methods and autonetnography.

Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

Keith F Punch and Alis Oancea


This text introduces the research process in a range of educational contexts. In this second edition, students will find guidance on every stage of research, with chapters on developing research questions, doing a literature review, collecting data, analysing your findings, and writing it all up. With a new chapter on ethics and additional coverage of Internet research and mixing methods, the second edition contains everything students will need on a research methods course or when conducting a research project.


Introduction to Research Methods in Education 2ed


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Matt Bower

Hbk | 472pp | 9781787141834 | 17/08/2017A$149 | NZ$176 | Emerald Publishing Ltd

This text explains how educational research can inform the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. After laying pedagogical, technological and content foundations, it analyses learning in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Learning and Virtual Worlds to derive nuanced principles for technology-enhanced learning design.

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Rick A. Houser


Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application teaches students how to be good consumers of research while demonstrating how practitioners conduct research in practice. In this fourth edition, author Rick Houser uses concrete examples from the professional literature to demonstrate how to effectively evaluate and interpret research articles. With coverage of evidence-based research, qualitative methods, program evaluation, mixed methods, and ACA ethical guidelines, this engagingly-written text is an invaluable resource to prepare students.

Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application 4ed

Sara Efrat Efron and Ruth Ravid


This accessible, pragmatic text shows educators step-by-step how to conduct classroom and school-based studies to improve instructional practices. The text presents methods and strategies for implementing each stage of the action research cycle, providing balanced coverage of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Students learn how to: select and define a research topic; develop a literature review; choose a design; formulate data collection strategies; design and/or evaluate assessment tools; and interpret, analyse, and report study results.

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Mike Lambert


Mike Lambert's text is a useful source of information, helping to create and shape your research methods project. In this basic guide, step-by-step advice is presented in a clear way and chapters take the reader through the entire process, from planning and doing research, to writing it up. Each stage is covered, with detailed help on choosing a topic, drawing up research questions, doing the literature review, choosing and designing research methods, the ethics of doing research, analysing data, and collating and presenting findings.


A Beginner's Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project

Gary Thomas


With more advice on concluding, writing up and presenting research, using social media and digital methods, and understanding what supervisors want and how to work with them, the third edition of this bestselling text continues to lead the way as an essential guide for anyone undertaking a research project in the applied social sciences. Setting out a clear and detailed road map, Gary Thomas guides students through the different stages of a research project, explaining key steps and processes at each level in refreshingly jargon-free terms.


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This text sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people within a discussion of the rights of the child. Through extensive case studies and a close review of contemporary literature, in relation to early childhood through to late adolescence, the text serves as a critical guide to issues in participative research for students.


Participatory Research with Children and Young People

Ranjit Kumar


This fifth edition of the bestseller Research Methodology has reimagined, redesigned, and fully renovated how a textbook can help students achieve success in their methods course or research project. Foolproof for any beginner researcher, the text breaks the process of designing and doing a research project into achievable stages. It delivers students from research problem to their written research report at the pace they need, with clear explanations, DIY tasks, helpful visualisations and study skills support.

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Andy Field


Once again, bestselling author and award-winning teacher Andy Field hasn't just broken the traditional textbook mould with his new textbook, he has forged in the fire of his imagination the only statistics book on the market with a terrifying probability bridge, zombies and talking cats! Field's unique approach introduces students to the importance and relevance of statistics in a lavishly illustrated format and style.


An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma


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This exciting edition of the bestselling and beloved teacher's companion looks at the everyday behaviour issues facing teachers working in today's classrooms. Describing real situations and dilemmas, Bill Rogers provides theoretically sound strategies and best practices to support you in meeting the challenges of the job, as well as building up a rapport with both students and colleagues to enable positive and productive learning environments.

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Linda M Bambara, Rachel Janney and Martha


A popular and trusted text, Behavior Support 3ed is your guide to implementing effective positive behaviour support (PBS). Students get explicit, research-based strategies for implementing the three tiers of PBS: universal, school-wide interventions; selected interventions with students exhibiting risk behaviours; and specialised interventions with students who need intensive, individualised help. Packed with updated strategies on hot topics, this text supports positive changes in students' behaviour.

Behavior Support 3ed

Mark W. Steege, Jamie L. Pratt, Gary Wicke


Widely recognised as a gold-standard resource, this authoritative text has been revised and expanded with 50% new material. It provides a complete introduction to functional behavioural assessment (FBA), complete with procedures, forms, and tools that have been piloted and refined in both general and special education settings.


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Glen Dunlap, Rose Iovannone, Donald Kincai


Solve serious behaviour challenges in K–8 classrooms with the updated second edition of this bestselling text, your practical, user-friendly guide to the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) model. Developed by highly respected experts on positive behaviour support, this research-proven model gives your school team a step-by-step blueprint for reducing problems unresolved by typical behaviour management strategies. You'll get explicit guidance and strategies for implementing all five steps of PTR.

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Bill Hansberry


Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution. This guide explains what restorative justice is, how it can be used in schools, what it looks like in the classroom and how it can be implemented. This text covers a wide range of topics from the basics of restorative justice, through to school-wide processes for embedding the approach in policy and practice.

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Fred Orelove, Dick Sobsey and Donna Gilles


A cornerstone of special education training for nearly 30 years, this is the definitive text for preparing educators, counsellors, and other related services professionals to teach children with severe and multiple disabilities in inclusive settings. This bestselling volume gives current and future educators the research and practical strategies they need to ensure the best learning outcomes for their students.

Educating Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities: A Collaborative Approach 5ed

Bruce F. Pennington, Lauren M. McGrath and

Hbk | 399pp | 9781462537914 | 5/02/2019A$87 | NZ$103 | Guilford Publications Inc

A definitive reference - now extensively revised with 70% new material - this text presents cutting-edge knowledge on how learning disorders develop and how to diagnose and treat them effectively. In addition to dyslexia and mathematics disabilities, the text covers speech and language disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability. Accessibly written, it is grounded in genetics, neuroscience, and developmental neuropsychology.

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Peg Dawson and Richard Guare


Revised and expanded with six new chapters, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention 3ed presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and promote specific skills, such as organisation, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. Strategies for individualised and classwide intervention are illustrated with vivid examples and sample scripts.

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Mark L. Batshaw, Nancy J. Roizen and Louis

Hbk | 1000pp | 9781681253206 | 1/04/2019A$179 | NZ$214 | Brookes Publishing Co.

This new edition is an unparalleled compendium of information about developmental, clinical, family, education, and intervention issues, from birth through adolescence. Every chapter has been meticulously peer-reviewed, and content has been updated throughout to reflect important new research and developments in diverse fields. The student-friendly features and multimedia instructor materials make it the ultimate textbook for courses on disability.

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Few evidence-based resources exist for supporting elementary and secondary students who require intensive intervention - typically Tier 3 within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Filling a gap in the field, this text brings together leading experts to present data-based individualisation (DBI), a systematic approach to providing intensive intervention which is applicable to reading, maths, and behaviour.


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Young people with ADHD can struggle to develop the skills they need to adapt to new situations and establish greater independence. This fun and interactive workbook is aimed at actively engaging young people with ADHD and supporting them as they negotiate the pitfalls of growing-up, and the transition to secondary or high school. Each chapter focuses on a different key issue affecting children with ADHD around the time of school transition, such as organisation, friendships, and stress.

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Filling an important need for K–12 educators, this highly practical text provides a step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, one of the most effective instructional techniques for struggling learners. The authors present well-validated strategies that target self-regulated learning and study skills as well as performance in specific content areas, such as writing, reading, and maths. Detailed classroom examples illustrate how to teach the strategies systematically and monitor student outcomes.


Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities 2ed

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Reviewing the state of the science of learning disabilities (LD) and describing effective educational practices, this authoritative text has been significantly revised and expanded with more than 70% new material. Foremost LD experts identify effective principles of assessment and instruction within the framework of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). With a focus on what works in the classroom, the text explores the full range of reading, mathematics, and writing disabilities.


Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention 2ed

Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield


Do you want to do better at university? Packed with study tips and handy activities, Essential Study Skills is a proven guide that shows you step-by-step how to study effectively and make the best of your time at university -whatever level you're at. In this edition, even more tips and advice on learning methods, online learning and developing job skills - ensuring success throughout your course. Additional case studies and student tips to help you apply the skills you need.

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Grappling with grammar? Worrying about referencing? This handy guide is packed with practical advice on how to search for reading materials, structure your academic writing, think critically, reference appropriately and use language effectively. ‘Top Tips’ throughout the text help eradicate all the common mistakes that bring your marks down. This is the perfect writing manual for students studying at all levels.

The Good Writing Guide for Education Students 4ed

Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes


Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who provide clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach; designing and delivering effective lessons; and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material.

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Engaging, Motivating and Empowering Learners in Schools

Sara Knight


Over the past 20 years, Forest School has continued to encourage and inspire individuals of all ages to take an innovative approach to outdoor play and learning. Linking theory with practice and exploring current research, this text considers the implementation of forest school opportunities for children and young people from 0-18 years. This text demonstrates how Forest School approaches are enriching learning opportunities for children, young people and adults, and deepening their connections with the natural world, with spectacular results.

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Learning with Nature: Embedding Outdoor Practice

Sue Roffey


Standing in front of a class of students is challenging enough, but what if they just won't behave? This text will tell you how to start off on the right foot as a new teacher, and how to look after yourself as well as your classes. Chapters will help you to build up your confidence and awareness, develop positive relationships with your students, create supportive bonds with colleagues, and manage disruptive, distressed, and defiant students calmly.

The New Teacher's Survival Guide to Behaviour 2ed

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Every early years practitioner should be able to captivate and maintain the interest of young children in their setting, through the provision of a playful learning experience. This text explores the importance of infusing playfulness throughout the entire early years day, and includes chapters that: establish the core principles underpinning playful teaching and learning; help students understand how playfulness can be applied to

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