Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

An introduction to educational management in practice. It contains 20 case studies which provide different insights into the challenges facing managers in education today.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of grounded theory, taking into account the many attempts to revise and refine Glaser and Strauss' original formulation.

The acclaimed British Social Attitudes survey is the essential guide to the topical issues and debates facing British society today, and this is the 26th report

This book will stimulate and extend knowledge and discussion of the role of schemas or repeated patterns of action in young children's cognitive and emotional development.

This book offers tried and tested strategies for successful and rewarding staff development that, most importantly, can contribute to improving pupil outcomes.

This book is a whole school traninig programme designed to raise self-esteem for everyone in the primary school.

This book, by a highly respected author and academic in the field of early childhood education, covers how to support the wellbeing both of young children and of the adults who live and work with them and their families.

This excellent introduction to sociology for social work students explains how sociology is connected to and fundamental for effective social work practice. Co-written by a sociologist, social worker and service user, this essential guide to sociology also comes with access to an exciting companion website offering the reader downloads, web links, powerpoint slides and case studies.

This book shows youth work students and professionals how to locate their practice within the professional code of ethics

A self-help DIY book for doing research - tells the reader everything they need to know to do research, and to understand others' research.

A practical, standards-based text that extends and deepens subject knowledge and helps trainees turn that into effective teaching.

An up to date and comprehensive introduction to the use, impact and implications of technology in policing for students undertaking policing related degrees.

An essential text for trainee teachers offering an understanding of the background, application and teaching of talking and thinking skills for primary children.

Essential learning and practice through assessment for all undergraduates with a cognitive psychology component to their course.

This excellent book shows trainee and practicing counsellors how to provide an integrative and personalised approach to working with clients

A cutting edge collection for this global and fast-moving field, edited by two of the world's leading political communications scholars.

A clear, practical and up-to-date guide for student nurses to working with other professionals and other people in order to deliver quality care.

An essential guide to passing the police recruit assessment process.

An original and enlivening book that really stands out amidst the drier, denser titles currently on the market. Brings social theory to life in an exciting and elegant way.

By providing ideas for practical and engaging activities to absorb pupils, this book shows how to make science come alive in the classroom.

With play a central part of new early years initiatives in all parts of the UK, this book will be essential reading for all early years students and practitioners.

By concentrating on the nature of terminology used in research, this book helps students better understand, and learn how to use, the specialist vocabulary of educational and social science research.

By considering current debates around the alleged failure of multiculturalism this book invites early years practitioners and students to look at the work they are, or will be doing, in relation to cultural diversity

This book is essential reading for anyone undertaking a research project in their own workplace, covering everything the researcher needs to consider when researching in this context.

This text provides comprehensive details of practical strategies and approaches for minimising ADHD behaviours and increasing on-task behaviour in school settings.

Guiding students through the process of writing both traditional and systematic literature reviews, this book tackles an area that is an integral part of doing research, yet is often overlooked by other methods texts.

This three-volume set provides an impressively comprehensive review of issues and theories spanning the subject of organizational studies within public administration.

This collection brings together for the first time a broad range of perspectives on the diverse and highly significant subject of political science.

A must-have for new and busy SENCOs. This text provides plenty of help with planning and time-management, and contains everything a SENCO needs to know about their role and information on the current government policies.