Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a suite of resources and activities for teachers to use in the classroom, providing cross curricular links in line with the PNS framework, to literacy, science, PE, design and technology, numeracy, geography and history. Though the stories will interest both girls and boys, they take special care to appeal to boys, who are known to achieve less highly than girls in reading and writing, and include themes such as:

• cars
• football
• ghosts and ghouls
• heroic deeds
• space and aliens.

Each story is linked explicitly to moral and social values, and can be used to reinforce citizenship, PHSE and SEAL initiatives in primary schools. With photocopiable resources for each story, this book offers instant ideas which can be implemented easily in teacher's plans and in the classroom and assembly, and will appeal to all busy teachers, NQTs and teachers in training.

This gem is the ideal companion for the busy primary school teacher. Packed with timesaving resources for both the classroom and assembly, it provides a wealth of activities to develop key values and skills in your pupils. Using the power of stories, the authors champion a fresh and inspiring approach to inclusive education across the curriculum, integrating key values into classroom learning. The twelve themed tales stimulate reflection and discussion on such sensitive areas as: bullying prejudice physical disability as well as 'hidden' disabilities alternative lifestyles, cultures, and different appearances parental difference. Lively characters of various ethnic origins, who embody respect for diversity, enhance these multicultural stories. In addition, each session contributes to key skills learning in English, including speaking and listening, reflecting, reasoning and concentrating. Many of the activities also integrate coordination and art and craft skills, numeracy and science skills. The many photocopiable activity pages make this an essential tool for teachers or heads who wish to ensure that inclusion is genuinely working for all children throughout their school.

Contents:
List of Contributors Editors' Foreword Mel Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil Part One: Pupils and Teachers 1. Understanding the Diversity of Diversity Graham Haydon, 2. Shock, Self-doubt and Rising to the Challenge: non-Aboriginal teachers learn about Aboriginal values Jane Pearce 3. The Pupil Control Idealogy of Teachers in Culturally Diverse Settings: the case of Arab and Jewish teachers in Israeli public secondary schools Ismael Abu Saad and Bobbie Turiansky 4. The Kibbutz Children's Society and Cultural Diversity: Lessons from the Past and Present Yuval Dror 5. Adolescence, Education and Personal Values in Five Cultures Cyril Simmons
Part Two: Institutional Issues 6. Governing Institutions in Contexts of Cultural Diversity Jane Martin 7. Race Awareness and School Ethos: reflections on school management issues Jean M. Webster 8. Parents, Schools and Values Peter Lang 9. Racist Bullying: creating understanding and strategies for teachers Keith Sullivan 10. Whose Knowledge? Values Education Across National Boundaries Joan Stephenson 11. Ethics and Values in Schools: philosophical and curricular considerations Terence J. Lovat 12. The Purpose and Context of Multi-Cultural Education and its Justification in the Curriculum of Mono-Cultural Schools Heather Fiona Waine 13. Valuing Diversity in Schools: transforming education through humanistic policy, pedagogy and practice Katherine Hanson and Maria Paz Avery 14. Values, Beliefs and Attitudes in Education: the nature of values and their place and promotion in schools D.N. Aspin 15. Ethics and Values in Secondary School Planning and Delivery Michael Marland 16. Values Education: issues and challenges in policy and school practice Monica J. Taylor
Part Three: Teacher Education 17. Training Teachers for Intercultural/Anti-Racist Education Fernand Ouellet 18. A Black Hole for Values: pupils with problems and teacher education Philip Garner 19. Crass Materialism: a crucial value education issue: a descriptive study of pre-service teachers' values Rhett Diessner 20. Seeking a Value Consensus for Education Brian V. Hill 21. Values in School Planning: can they be explicit? Karen Caple

Contents:
List of Contributors Editor's Foreword Mal Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil
Part One: Politics and Education 1. Holocaust Education and Citizenship: a view from the United Kingdom Geoffrey Short 2. Humanistic Values Education: personal, interpersonal, social and political dimensions Dov Darom 3. Political Learning and Values Education: problems and possibilities Ian Davies 4. Teachers' Idealized identity and Immigrant Education Marsha L. Thickston 5. Adult Education, Community Development and Cultural Diversity in Northern Ireland Tom Lovett 6. Women in the Entertainment Industry: a social and global perspective Linda Seger 7. Harnessing Folklore and Traditional Creativity to Promote Better Understanding Between Jewish and Arab Children in Israel Simon Lichman and Keith Sullivan 8. Heads I win. Tails You Lose: the politics of the disabled world Leonard A. Parkyn
Part Two: Education for Citizenship 9. Citizenship Education and Cultural Diversity Janet Edwards and Ken Fogelman 10. Citizenship Education for Adolescent Offenders Donald Biggs, Robert Colesante, Joshua Smith and Gary Hook 11. Citizenship Education; Cultural Diversity Patrick J.M. Costello 12. Values Education and the Humanization of the Curriculum David Aspin and Judith Chapman 13. A Proposal for Moral and Citizenship Teaching Maria Julia Bertomeu and Maria Victoria Costa 14. Education and Democratic Citizenship: in defence of cosmopolitanism Penny Enslin 15. Beyond the Work- related Curriculum: citizenship and learning after sixteen Karen Evans 16. Comparing Discourses: Democratic Values, the Coalition of Essential Schools and the Eight Year Study Tom C. Wilson 17. Citizenship and Nationhood: the constructions of British and American children Bruce Carrington and Geoffrey Short 18. Value Pluralism, Democracy and Education for Citizenship Don Rowe 19. Religious Education as Democratic Education Fernand Ouellet 20. "The Good Citizen": cultural understandings of citizenship and gender amongst a new generation of teachers Madeleine Arnot, Helena Araujo, Kiki Deliyanni-Kouimtzis, Gabrielle Ivinson and Amparo Tome 21. Gender and Education for Citizenship: promoting educational values and values education in Greece Kiki Deliyanni-Kouimtzis 22. The Aims of Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker

A comprehensive treatment of the current concern with values in education. In six volumes, a team of over 120 contributors and experts from around the world examine the issues and place them in a context of culture and diversity. Volumes 1 to 3 provide a wide-ranging consideration of the diversity of values in education at all levels, and thus represents a framework for the focus of Volumes 4 to 6, which focus more specifically on values education (moral, religious, spiritual and political). Overall the six volumes bring together the fundamental domain of values with the important issue of pluralism and the world of independent cultural traditions, to generate new, fruitful and progressive reflection and exemplars of good practice. Handsomely bound and printed they are an essential reference tool and represent a significant contribution of interest and benefit to educators, policy makers, parents, academics, researchers and student teachers.

Contents:
List of Contributors Editors' Foreword Mal Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil
Part One: Spiritual Education 1. Moral, Spiritual, Religious - Are They Synonymous? Alex Rodger 2. Religious Education, Spirituality and Anti-Racism Stephen Bigger 3. Facilitating Spiritual Development in the Context of Cultural Diversity David Adshead 4. Moral Education and Lifelong Integrated Education Yoshiko Nomura 5. Newspapers and Spiritual Development: a perspective on religious education Richard Pearce 6. "The Open Heaven": fostering dialogue and understanding in the context of religious diversity Winifres Wing Han Lamb 7. Live by the Word and Keep Walking:religious education and contextualisation in a culture of disbelief Toinette M. Eugene
Part Two: Religious Education 8. Religionism and Religious Education John M. Hull 9. Law, Politics and Religious Education in England and Wales: some history, some stories and some observations Robert Jackson 10. Religious Education: Cinderella does go to the ball ^Derek Bastide 11. Values, Virtues, Voluntaryism: the contribution of Anglican Church Schools to education in a multicultural society Marian Carter 12. Values Education in Bahai Schools Jennifer Chapa and Rhett Diessner 13. Denominational Schools in The Netherlands Doret de Ruyter and Siebren Miedema 14, The Values of Grant-Maintained Status: the case of catholic schools Andrew Hannan 15. How Local Should a Local Agreed Syllabus for RE be? Vivienne Baumfield 16. The Rationale of the Charis Project John Shortt 17. The End of Religion in the UK and Beyond Brian E. Gates 18. Mission Impossible? Religious Education in the 1990s Judith Everington 19. Mentoring Religious Education: teaching in secondary schools Nick Mead 20. Collective Worship in a Predominantly Muslim LEA Upper School R. Thompson 21. Approaches to Collective Worship in Multifaith Schools Jeanette Gill 22. Beliefs and Values: the Western Australian experience Cynthia K. Dixon

Volume IV looks at the development of moral education, with particular relation to the context of cultural pluralism. Taking a theoretical approach, it discusses philosophical issues of moral relativism as well as the application of theory to good practice.

Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book shows how to make use of the learning power of story-time for young children, providing original, themed stories and associated learning activities to promote young children's cognitive and emotional development. Stories in this highly practical resource stimulate the child's interest and acts as a springboard to related learning games designed to develop children's skills in the six foundation areas of learning: personal, social and emotional development communication, language and literacy mathematical development knowledge and understanding of the world physical development creative development. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with extensive photocopiable material, this book recognizes the importance of play, games, social interaction, parental involvement, multicultural education and how to enjoy learning from an early age. All Early Years practitioners will find this book an essential addition to their bookshelves.

Contents:
1. A Story Book Dream 2. The Bumblebee Man 3. Saving the World 4. The Magician in the Mirror 5. Fireworks for Divali 6. Free as the Wind 7. Finding Dragon Land 8. A Pattern of Pleasure 9. The Day the Sky Fell Down 10. A Secret Place 11. Confident as Chloe 12. New Colours 13. Flashing Blue Light 14. Playing Fair 15. Oceans of Wonder

Contents:
List of Contributors Editors' Foreword Mal Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil
Part One: Classroom Practice 1. Value Issues in Developing Children's Thinking Michael Bonnett 2. Cooperative Learning, Values and Culturally Plural Classrooms David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson 3. Explicit Values in the Classroom: is it possible? Karen Caple 4. Growing Up Today: children talking about social issues Cathie Holden 5. Discussion of Values and the Value of Discussion Graham Haydon
Part Two: Pedagogy 6. The Way Tests Teach: children's theories of how much testing is fair in school Theresa A. Thorkildsen 7. Cultural Diversity: concept and ideology as a pedagogical resource? Karsten Douglas 8. Motivating Students to Succeed: the work of Birmingham Compact 1988-94 Stephen Bigger 9. Mapping Schooling Types and Pedagogies Within Different Values Frameworks Jan Currie
Part Three: Curriculum 10. The (Multicultural) Educational Value of the Aesthetic Dimension of Experience Janet Fergurson 11. Cultural Diversity in Art Education Helen Charman 12. Who Decides for Posterity? On the Concept of Classical Art Ruth Lorrand 13. The Use of Stories in Intercultural Education Piero Paolicchi 14. Aesthetics, The Arts and Post-School Education David Jones 15. Values and Visions: Values Education in a Pluralist Society Sally Burns 16. Tolerating the Alien:empathy in history education Marnie Hughes-Warrington 17. Language Education for a Pluralistic Society Elisabeth Gfeller 18. The Role of Values in Psychology: implications for a reformed curriculum Ben Bradley 19. Sexuality Education, Values and Cultural Diversity: international developments and questions arising Ronald W. Morris 20. Mathematics as Social Practice in a South African Workplace Context Dave Baker 21. Design and Technology Education for a Pluralistic Society Bernard Down

Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book shows how to make use of the learning power of story-time for young children, providing original, themed stories and associated learning activities to promote young children's cognitive and emotional development. Stories in this highly practical resource stimulate the child's interest and acts as a springboard to related learning games designed to develop children's skills in the six foundation areas of learning: personal, social and emotional development communication, language and literacy mathematical development knowledge and understanding of the world physical development creative development. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with extensive photocopiable material, this book recognizes the importance of play, games, social interaction, parental involvement, multicultural education and how to enjoy learning from an early age. All Early Years practitioners will find this book an essential addition to their bookshelves.

Circle time is a very popular activity in today's schools and creates a safe, fun environment where children can think about their relationships, their behaviour, and be honest about their problems and feelings. In this book, the highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester offers a range of lively and engrossing stories, poems and songs for use in circle time activities and assemblies. They are specially written to develop the cognitive and emotional development of young children and aim to encourage active and responsible participation. Using plentiful illustrations, photocopiable pages and practical activities, the author links twelve key value-based themes in the circle time stories to stimulate discussion and enhance pupils' literacy skills and citizenship education.

This book is an indispensable resource for use in both the classroom and assembly, providing a delightful collection of fifteen original themed stories and activities, designed to develop key values and skills. Using the power of story, it stimulates reflection and discussion on a range of topics. The material is presented to maximise fun in learning, flexibility and coverage of National Curriculum guidelines for values education teaching. Amongst the key values discussed are: personal responsibility and independence co-operation and sharing honesty and justice respect for world religions. Each session contributes to key skills in English, whilst many of the activities involve use of co-ordination, numeracy and science skills. In addition, the stories are implicitly multicultural in flavour, giving a diverse and innovative feel to the book as a whole. An irresistibly charming, and yet practical tool, its topical tales and photocopiable resources make it an essential classroom companion.

Not sure how to start your essay or prepare for a presentation? Worried about how to structure your report? Questioning what a good assignment actually looks like? With encouraging, jargon-free advice and a clearly defined seven-step plan to getting better grades, this book takes the fear out of academic writing and gives you the tools you need to succeed. Punchy and packed with the dos and don'ts of good writing, it helps you improve your grades quickly and with minimal hassle. Covering not just essays, but also group work, reports, reviews, research projects, journaling, and presentations, it provides effective tips on: Defeating writers' block Identifying and using relevant sources Planning and outlining strategies Building arguments and providing evidence Developing critical and analytical thinking Cultivating writing style Mastering presentation. Focused on explaining and demonstrating the core requirements of academic assignments through detailed examples, this book provides all the support you need to build confidence and produce high-quality assignments. The Student Success series are essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips and resources for study success!

In Environmental Learning for Classroom and Assembly at KS1 & KS2, the highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester teams up with the conservationist Denise Taylor to teach children about wildlife and environmental conservation through the art of storytelling. Reflecting the child s world, the book works outwards from home to garden to neighbourhood to the countryside and seaside and to the planet as a whole. At each level, appreciating, conserving, and enhancing our environment is considered.

The authors follow the tried and tested format of Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Circle Time and Assemblies. Each of the ten chapters includes an original themed story and is packed with lesson plans and cross-curriculum learning activities designed to save teachers valuable time. Leicester and Taylor combine the wonder of storytelling with topical environmental issues, covering plants, creatures and the planet. The book covers the full range of conservation, protection and enhancement themes, concepts and values whilst developing the following skills:

• literacy (including oracy)
• numeracy
• knowledge of the natural world
• imaginative development
• creative expression.

Making a highly topical and on-going subject accessible to children, this beautifully illustrated resource offers teachers assembly ideas, lesson plans and art activities all in one book.

Contents:
List of Contributors Editors' Foreword Mal Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil Research Paper: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? Researching "Race" in Educational Settings Barry Troyna
Part One: Theories, Concepts and Implicit Values 1. Value Underpinnings of Antiracist and Multicultural Education Lawrence A. Blum 2. Markets, Managerialism and the Neglect of Multicultural Education Mike Bottery 3. "Heritable Intelligence": real and important, or an arbitrary social construct? Stephen Chilton and Anne Meyer 4. Contested Values and Disputed Cultural Identity in Mexican Higher Education Ken Kempner and Imanol Ordorika 5. Cultural Pluralism as an Educational Ideal Basil R. Singh 6. Diversity and Universal Values in Multicultural Education Joseph Puig Rovira 7. Attitudes Towards the Mentally Handicapped and Counter Selection in the Educational System Csaba Banfalvy 8. Altering Conceptions of Subjectivity: a prelude to the more generous effluence of empathy Ann Chinnery and Heesoon Bai
Part Two: Systems, Policies and Projects across the World. 9. Values in European Higher Education: the ethnicity test Maggie Woodrow and David Crosier
10. Values Education and Cultural Diversity Paulo Renato Souza 11. Values: The Western Australian Experience - an overview of a three year project Karen Caple 12. Biculturalisms (and Antiracisms) in Education in New Zealand: an overview Jennie Harre Hindmarsh 13. Two Tracks to Citizenship in the United States Donald A. Biggs, Robert Colesante and Joshua Smith 14. Changing Values and National Identities in the Caribbean and their Effect on Language Education Policy Peter A. Roberts 15. Pluralism and Linguistic Diversity: policy trends in Africa Clinton D.W. Robinson 16. Values, Policy and Practice in the Education of Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand Keith Sullivan 17. An Analysis of the Effect of Recent National Policy Changes on Values and Education in South Africa Elza Venter, Karin Franzsen and Elna van Heerden 18. Diversity, Values and National Policy in Australia Lorraine M. Ling 19. Ethics, National Education Policy and the Teaching Profession Terry Hyland

Circle time is a very popular activity in today's schools and creates a safe, fun environment where children can think about their relationships, their behaviour, and be honest about their problems and feelings. Some teachers are often too overstretched to find time to plan for this special time in the school week. The highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester here offers a range of lively and engrossing stories, poems and songs for use in circle time activities and assemblies. They are specially written to develop the cognitive and emotional development of young children and aim to encourage active and responsible participation. Using plentiful illustrations, photocopiable pages and practical activities, the author links twelve key value-based themes in the circle time stories to stimulate discussion and enhance pupils' literacy skills and citizenship education.

'Lifelong Learning'is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups. This one volume reference book covers all the major issues, with well-known academic contributors working in the field and covering the topics of theoretical, global and curriculum perspectives, widening participation and the industrial university.
Topics covered include:
*community education
*popular education
*higher education
*the corporate university
*the school curriculum
*vocational studies.
With contributors from China, Africa, USA, Canada, UK and other European countries, Lifelong Learning offers a comprehensive and challenging account of issues arising from varying lifelong learning decisions, and exposes the impact these decisions have on such a large majority of the population.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203614534

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Meet Max - a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS). Max invites readers to learn about Tourette's from his perspective, helping them to understand what tics and triggers are and what it feels like to have TS. He explains how living with TS can sometimes be difficult, and how people around him can help him to feel happy and accepted. This illustrated book is ideal for young people aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and other professionals working with children with TS. It is also an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

Not sure how to start your essay or prepare for a presentation? Worried about how to structure your report? Questioning what a good assignment actually looks like? With encouraging, jargon-free advice and a clearly defined seven-step plan to getting better grades, this book takes the fear out of academic writing and gives you the tools you need to succeed. Punchy and packed with the dos and don'ts of good writing, it helps you improve your grades quickly and with minimal hassle. Covering not just essays, but also group work, reports, reviews, research projects, journaling, and presentations, it provides effective tips on: Defeating writers' block Identifying and using relevant sources Planning and outlining strategies Building arguments and providing evidence Developing critical and analytical thinking Cultivating writing style Mastering presentation. Focused on explaining and demonstrating the core requirements of academic assignments through detailed examples, this book provides all the support you need to build confidence and produce high-quality assignments. The Student Success series are essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips and resources for study success!

Children who live and go to school apart from people with disabilities suffer from several distinct disadvantages, including the fact that exposure to stories about disability, however well-intentioned, may make them believe all those with disabilities have the same emotions, needs and attitudes as characters in the story. This set of eight stories has enough accompanying activities and lessons to counter this problem somewhat; Leicester (education emerita, U. of Nottingham) works from experiences she has had with her own daughter, who contributes an autobiography. Topics include common ground, the advantages of having a good caregiver, correct behaviour around those with disabilities, bullying, cultural attitudes toward disability, and the benefits of focusing on abilities rather than disabilities. This book is intended for children aged four to 11 who are not in mainstreamed classrooms, so caregivers should be extremely careful in using this if children with disabilities are part of the regular classroom.' - www.booknews.com 'Designed to support key stages 1 and 2 of the National Curriculum (England and Wales); this 155 page book is a superb resource or anyone wishing to raise disability awareness among children. Using the medium of storytelling the lives and adventures of eight children with disabilities are individually told. Care has been taken to cover various types of disability, for example sensory impairment, learning difficulties/difference, mobility and emotional and behavioural difficulties. Cultural diversity is also strongly supported with some of the children coming from ethnic minority groups. Refreshingly unlike many children's stories the heroes of these stories are based on children who have a disability, with a core aim of promoting a positive approach to disability and breaking away from the potential stereotyping that can so easily develop within the everyday lives of children. Supported by walk through instructions on how the book should be used it highlights the key aims and objectives to each story. The building of vocabulary through activity sessions is particularly useful given the complexity of the subject. Clearly illustrated the book is very much a flexible learning resource and can be used independently or within other subjects. In conclusion this book is a must have for anyone tasked with teaching or supporting a child's education.' -The Encephalitis Society 'What I like most about this book is they way it gives so much information and so easily. Even if you don't feel confident about the topic, there is so much included that you will have all the help you need. All the stories are positive and how fabulous to have a book which the main characters are disabled!' - National Child-Minding Association 'If you only buy one book about disability - make it this one!' - National Child-Minding Association 'An imaginative approach to promoting disability awareness among 4 to 11 year olds. Designed to be used by parents and care professionals as well as teachers. Covers a wide range of topics, positive and negative, including fear, feelings, success, bullying, joy and exclusion, with disabled children as the heroes and heroines.' - Current Awareness Service Stories both educate and entertain. We learn from them and the learning is fun. They also stimulate our imagination and creativity. In this collection of short stories, the heroes and heroines are disabled children who defy the stereotypes associated with being disabled: being pitiable, a victim, freakish or a burden. Special Stories for Disability Awareness provides stories that fire the imagination and promote disability awareness and discussion among children aged 4-11 about universal issues such as fear, loss, feeling 'different', bullying, exclusion, joy, success, friendship and emotional growth. The stories provide a safe environment for young children to discuss painful emotions as well as a tool for teachers, parents and professionals to understand the experiences of disabled children. Each chapter features an engaging story, linked discussion and learning materials as well as suggestions for activities and photocopiable handouts. All those who work in early education or support young children will find this an invaluable resource.

This book provides practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills. Ensuring that students leave school with good critical thinking skills has become a high priority over the last few years. This highly practical book provides effective strategies for developing these skills. The strategies can be adapted for all age ranges. This highly practical series contains a wide range of books of importance to teachers, trainees and NQTs. Each book is packed with ready-to-use activities to be used in the classroom. They are quick and easy to dip into: each technique is presented on the left-hand page, and the facing right-hand page shows a practical activity to put that technique into practice.