Building on best-selling texts over three decades, this thoroughly revised new edition is essential reading for both primary and secondary school teachers in training and in practice, supporting both initial school-based training and extended career-long professionalism.

• provides easy access to key texts on education
• explores issues in early years, primary and secondary settings
• showcases important research findings
• annotations provide expert guidance, highlighting the key issues explored

• introduces evidence-informed ‘principles’ and ‘concepts’ to support a deeper understanding of the theories informing and underpinning early years practice
• written in a supportive, accessible tone with strong pedagogical features
• includes examples from a wide-range of early years settings
• offers a solid, research-based principled underpinning, along with sound practical advice

• encourages readers to engage with key texts on early education and develop their own understanding
• annotations provide guidance, highlighting the key issues explored and explaining the status of classic works
• provides a library of both classic and contemporary works from international contributors

• this new edition has been updated and expanded throughout
• a broad range of disciplines, levels and institutional settings are drawn on throughout
• the new chapter structure makes the text easily navigated, with the new text design ensuring that the text is more accessible than ever before

• explores wide range of issues in further education teaching and training
• encourages readers to engage with key classic and contemporary texts and develop their own understanding and expertise
• annotations provide a guidance, highlighting the key issues explored and explaining the status of classic readings

• offers a solid, research-based principled underpinning, along with sound practical advice
• includes examples from a broad range of the disciplines, levels, and institutional settings that make up contemporary higher education both in the UK and internationally
• written in a supportive, accessible tone with strong pedagogical features