Books published by Critical Publishing Ltd

A valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators on key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds.

How to understand social work theory and apply it to social work practice

A useful resource for people seeking to understand witchcraft branding as a contemporary form of child abuse.

A call to action for post-compulsory teacher education professionals, both in the UK and internationally, to unite around key principles and practices.

A one stop shop of accessible and relevant information for all early years students to help you succeed in your degree, increase your employability skills and develop as ethical and critically reflective practitioners.

A concise one stop, pick up/put down book providing both pre and in-service trainees with comprehensive coverage of the Level 3 Award in Education and Training, including the Learning and Development units.

An essential text for students and practitioners on the development and acquisition of language and literacy in the early years.

This essential text for primary trainees and teachers examines the key skill of writing beyond the earliest school years, including issues of children's writing attainment, boys' relative lack of success and teachers' lack of confidence in modelling writing.

Through its exploration of service user and MHSWs' perspectives the book offers a social perspective on personality disorder and suggests ways of working to empower the person's response to traumatic experience.

Suitable for students on all early years courses that include a module on global childhoods, this text examines how culture and society shape childhoods through considering the lived experiences of children internationally.

This book looks at critical reflection as a key skill for all trainees and teachers in further education (FE) and an important part of the new Professional Standards.

An essential and aspirational read for all beginning teachers, with a clear focus on learning in order to help you become an OUTSTANDING TEACHER who makes a difference to learners, colleagues, schools and policy.

An essential guide to important theories of professional learning for teacher educators, of particular value to those taking on new responsibilities in relation to initial teacher education (ITE) and those interested in developing new ways of working in partnership.