Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

A Super Quick guide to planning and organising your revision and being fully prepared to successfully take your exam.

An international outlook on the different aspects of critical pedagogy. Authors from around the global discuss the both philosophical and social common themes on the subject.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood.

A comprehensive textbook designed to guide students through the entirety of a Health and Social Care BSc degree. By using a three part structure, it covers the important topics and pressing issues relevant to Health and Social Care today. Starting with the essential areas and core knowledge, through health and social care in practice, and finishing with coverage of the challenges faced in present day health and social care.

Combining a detailed focus on the core skills and principles underpinning good history teaching, this book will help develop a strong understanding of key historical concepts and the dynamics of the primary history national curriculum.

This is the perfect guide to conducting a research project in politics and international relations from start to finish, from formulating a research question and conducting a literature review to writing up and disseminating your work.

A new edition of the seminal textbook in media and mass communication. Denis McQuail's classic book has been revised and updated by Mark Deuze to reflect the contemporary media landscape and to speak to needs of today's media students.

A Super Quick guide to critically analysing academic texts for your research and assignments.

Get on the right track from day one at university with this super quick guide, designed to get you through university cool, calm and in control!

From research preparations to post-research debriefing, this book covers every stage of the social research process, outlining how to undertake fieldwork as safely as possible.

This book guides trainees through each step of their journey and helps them build the knowledge, confidence and skills to succeed.

This book covers all the major areas of science relevant for beginning primary schoolteachers, explaining key concepts from the ground up, helping trainees develop into confident scienceeducators.

In this newly updated edition, Julian Grenier leads you through the new updated Ofsted framework, and shows you how to navigate the process focusing on doing what is best for children and families to build long-lasting and effective provision that can be maintained before, during and after inspection.

This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 assessment approaches for use and adaptation in any learning environment.

This new text for education undergraduates covers a broad range of themes from across the education sector and focuses on some key contemporary issues. The text includes links to both up-to-date research and more seminal, often cited research and theories.

It is essential that students develop sound decision-making skills in order to deal with the challenges they will encounter as registered nurses. This book enables pre-registration nursing students to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively.

Pre-empt any student anxiety about their maths skills ahead of their forthcoming statistics module with this hands-on workbook. Packed with clear explanations, real-world examples and practical exercises it gives them all the necessary maths skills to tackle statistics with confidence.

There is now a great need for people within education (both students and teachers) to engage critically with research and it is supported by the Department for Education, Ofsted and the teaching community. This books shows how to read journal articles critically, how to assess the robustness of research claims and the relevance of the results.

A comprehensive textbook designed to guide students through the entirety of a Health and Social Care BSc degree. By using a three part structure, it covers the important topics and pressing issues relevant to Health and Social Care today. Starting with the essential areas and core knowledge, through health and social care in practice, and finishing with coverage of the challenges faced in present day health and social care.

Rules and codes for healthcare professionals continue to proliferate yet are unable to offer practical advice in specific circumstances. To help balance official rules with the variable, unique human element, David Seedhouse and Vanessa Peutherer explain what personal judgement is and how it can be applied routinely and effectively in everyday decision-making in healthcare.

This book aims to give non-Muslim teachers the confidence to engage meaningfully with important facets of Muslim pupils' lives leading to a richer and more rewarding experience in the classroom.

Introducing mixed methods alongside basic research theory and principles, this text fully integrates mixed methods into the research methods foundation, providing a straightforward introduction to the topic.

An encyclopedic introduction to research, showing students how to think about every stage of their project and equipping them with the tools they need to understand different research processes.

A very practical guide teaching students everything they need to know to successfully apply theory, methods and approaches in real-life practice.

Introduces you to the core counselling and psychotherapy skills you will need for effective therapeutic practice.

With two new chapters on Research Methods and Applications in Social Psychology, Essential Social Psychology offers a clear and concise introduction for students studying the subject for the first time.

The book gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and child abuse.

This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by - and determined as well as limited by - the notion of Being, whereas traditional Chinese thought was always situated in Living.