Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

This practical and inspiring book demonstrates how creative thinking and learning can support primary English teaching, with case studies exploring high-quality primary English practice including planning, rationale and ideas for the classroom.

This Major Work collection explores a number of substantive methodologies and focuses on generating data, drawing primarily on literature from sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, and education.

A global and multidisciplinary exploration of contemporary resistance. Leading researchers from around the world link theory to the realities of Occupy, Indignados, The Tea Party, The Arab Spring, Anonymous and more.

The perfect primer and companion for undergraduate geography students approaching quantitative geography for the first time.

A clear, contemporary, and student-friendly exploration of age and ageing as it relates to culture and society.

Challenging current modes of thinking, and covering areas not usually found in qualitative research texts such as social reality/ontology and quantum reality/mechanics, this book helps readers to choose and defend their research methods and to take their work beyond standard perspectives

Mary Holmes shows how an optimistic sociology can help us think about and understand social problems and positive social change. The perfect companion and/or antidote to studying sociology.

Introduces students to the fundamental principles of mental health law and how they can be applied to everyday practice with clear introductions to key Acts such as the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act as well as the relevant Codes of Practice.

Compiled and introduced by a leading voice in the field, this Major Work has been created to serve as a far-reaching and conceptually broad resource for scholars worldwide.

The four volumes of this collection broadly outline the debate as it has developed, both from a policy as well as an academic perspective, bringing conceptual clarity as well as providing an account of how the water security discourse has emerged and developed.

This five-volume collection maps the terrain of qualitative psychology, using classic papers from the last 25 years to document key principles, orientations and virtues, and drawing on more recent papers to delineate current trends, innovations and debates.

Showcases the main debates and controversies associated with peacebuilding. This title seeks to go beyond a simple explanation of peacebuilding institutions and projects to unpack the ideas and ideologies that underpin the subject.

This comprehensive, up-to-date core text covers all aspects of the early childhood studies course. Throughout, key theories and research findings are highlighted and explored to help readers make links between theory and early years practice.

Unpacks ideas of equality, equity, diversity and social justice, providing practitioners and those training to teach with an understanding of equality in order to address educational values and practice.

An easy to use programme that is ready to implement in any setting to help assess children at the lowest levels of learning in order to help them progress in a meaningful way.

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

Considers solution-focused approaches to behaviour management exploring how a teacher can be a facilitator of positive behaviour.

Completely updated to reflect current issues and debates, this fourth edition remains the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology. It explores a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues and is now supported by a companion website with over 30 hours of video and audio.

With brand new chapters on ethics and mixed methods, this indispensable guide continues to provide readers with everything they need to develop effective and successful research proposals.

Considering strategy as something an organization has and which its members do, the new 2nd edition deals with a selection of topics that have been central in recent academic debates in the strategy-as-practice area.

This book supports practitioners to understand science in the early years curriculum (i.e. understanding the world) and how best to nurture key scientific skills in order to form a firm base for learning for young children aged 3-7.

The bestselling text for students of developmental psychology returns with more on the biological foundations, moral development and applied aspects of developmental psychology.

Written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team, and supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further questions and topics for discussion, this book will show students the differing contexts of where, how and why coaching and mentoring take place and take them from emerging theory to informed practice.

A practical guide on how to to teach Character in primary schools, exploring why character matters. Coverage includes the implications of character beyond the classroom and how outdoor learning and education can contribute.