Books in the Cassell studies in pastoral care & personal & social education series

This text is designed to provide insights into the application of ideas and theories from psychotherapy and counselling to education in teaching. It is a response to the increasing pressure that is being placed on schools to produce results, and so to neglect pupils with special needs.

A guide to spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC), seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice in this area. It includes research findings and confronts such topical and practical issues as teaching methods and whole school policy.

Covering both theory and practice, this work provides a guide to reflection and meditation in school, showing how to relate such principles to the curriculum as a whole.

With the aim of showing how educators can use their skills to inform practical action on problematic drug issues, this text identifies the drug issues emerging in the classroom and highlights strategies for dealing with them.

Pastoral care provision in schools has become increasingly marginalized in recent years. This book stresses the need for a radical rethink and reprioritizing of pastoral support. It promotes the belief that pastoral care can contribute to and improve academic achievement.

Shows how the practical approach to affective education varies from nation to nation. By analyzing the underlying theory, this text sets out to bring the different approaches closer together, to enable teachers across the continent to work towards a positive common ground.

Arguing that a good school is one with recognizable moral and intellectual traits, the author outlines his view of how schools should be organized, as a whole and in every field of education, to encourage these traits.