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Subject Leadership and School Improvement

By: Hugh Busher,Alma Harris

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Subject Leadership and School Improvement

By: Hugh Busher,Alma Harris

Curriculum and subject leadership in schools has recently gained substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers. The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) has reinforced the importance of subject leadership in school improvement, proposing a new measure of such leadership competence through the creation of national subject leader standards (NPQSL). Subject Leadership and School Improvement reflects critically on the work of subject and curriculum leaders especially in schools in England and Wales, that is, those within the policy framework of The National Curriculum and the Teacher Training Agency. The book debates the functions of subject leaders in primary and secondary schools, using current researc

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0761966218

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Online Interviewing

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

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Online Interviewing

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

Online Interviewing is a short, accessible and highly practical introduction to designing and conducting online interviews in qualitative research. James and Busher focus on helping the reader to understand the methodological and epistemological challenges of carrying out online interviews in the virtual environment. This is an ideal introduction for anyone who is interested in using online methods and who has an interest in the theory of the method.

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1412945321

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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of financial targets. Chapters explore students’ struggles with institutional and social structures in the current political and socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by collaborative cultures and supportive tutors. The book addresses a research gap in knowledge about students’ and tutors’ experiences of Access to Higher Education courses, presenting a broad perspective on the importance and difficulties of such courses through listening to the voices of students and tutors undertaking a variety of Access to HE pathways. The authors argue that despite success on their courses benefiting the national economy as well as students individually, the social and financial costs of continuing education is almost entirely shifted onto students’ shoulders by policymakers. Despite the costs, students can still see Access to HE as a chance to improve their lives, reflecting the neoliberal discourse of personal responsibility and risk embedded in broader national social and policy discourses. Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of further and higher education, widening participation, social justice and sociology of education, and education policy and politics.

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Routledge

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131737326X

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EBOOK: Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power and Culture

By: Hugh Busher

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EBOOK: Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power and Culture

By: Hugh Busher

This book shows how school leaders at all levels – from the most senior manager to the classroom teacher – can help to build learning communities through collaborating and negotiating with their colleagues, students and students’ parents and carers, as well as with external agencies and local communities, to sustain and develop the enjoyment of successful learning among the members of a school. It looks at how positive cultures can be constructed that support inclusive and exciting teaching, enthusiastic teachers and engaged students, parents and carers. Drawing on research, the book examines topics such as the nature of leadership, especially distributed and teacher leadership; the politics of education management; the construction of inclusive cultures in schools; school improvement; and the construction of collaborative and inclusive work groups. It uses a range of critical perspectives to examine processes of change and the relationships of people in school communities to each other and to their social, economic and policy contexts. The book argues that it is essential to develop inclusive education in order to promote student engagement, social justice and equity within formal education. Understanding Educational Leadership is key reading for teachers, headteachers, school leaders, policy makers, Education students and practitioners, and others who have an interest in improving schooling.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335224474

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9780335224470

Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power And Culture

People, Power and Culture

By: Busher, Hugh

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Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power And Culture

People, Power and Culture

By: Busher, Hugh

Understanding Educational Leadership is key reading for teachers, headteachers, school leaders, policy makers, Education students and practitioners, and others who have an interest in improving schooling."--BOOK JACKET.

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0335217176

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9780335217175

Trench Knives and Mustard Gas

With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France

By: Hugh S. Thompson

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Trench Knives and Mustard Gas

With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France

By: Hugh S. Thompson

Trench Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France is the memoir of a soldier on the front lines of World War I. Hugh Thompson’s memoirs of his time in France demonstrate a keen eye for detail and a penchant for philosophy. Thompson combines the fast-paced prose of the jazz age and the passionate observations of an engaged intellectual. Originally serialized in the Chattanooga Times in 1934, this newly edited version allows the author to tell his story to a whole new generation. Thomspon takes the reader on an intense journey with the 168th regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division through the villages, towns, battlefields, and hospitals of France. He points out the sights along the way and has a knack for compressing a complex reflection on life into a single sentence. Severely wounded in his arm and back, Thompson reassesses his situation after visiting comrades who lost arms or legs. “I went back to my tent,” he recalls, “almost ashamed of my own lucky wounds.” Homesick for the States during his first months overseas, Thompson discovers that his platoon has become his second family. He becomes increasingly estranged from his old one and accustomed to the war’s distortion of time and values. Friendships form and disappear in the hour it takes a stranger to die. When he is wounded, Germans serve as his stretcher bearers. And things never happen when they take place, but later when one learns of them from a letter or from a soldier passing through. War does not destroy the physical man. It leads to strange experiences. Trench Knives and Mustard Gas brings the front lines of World War I, the Great War, to the hearts and minds of its readers. The book is an indispensable guide into the past, told by a man who was there.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585442909

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Dunkirk

Fight to the Last Man

By: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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Dunkirk

Fight to the Last Man

By: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle. 'A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers' Tim Gardam, The Times 'Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence' Richard Ovary, Telegraph Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist and then an author. He wrote the best-selling Enigma: The Battle for the Code. One of his ancestors was evacuated from Dunkirk.

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Penguin UK

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0141906162

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Effective Subject Leadership

By: Kit Field,Phil Holden,Hugh Lawlor

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Effective Subject Leadership

By: Kit Field,Phil Holden,Hugh Lawlor

This book highlights issues which underpin the professional capabilities of existing and aspiring subject leaders. The content is designed to build on the skills, knowledge, understanding and attributes which serving Heads of Department and subject co-ordinators already possess. Sections are provided on: *essential knowledge and understanding for the role *strategic planning and development *monitoring and evaluating teaching and learning *leading and managing staff to raise achievement. The emphasis throughout is on corresponding with the National Standards set by the Teacher Training Agency. Through focused activities the book aims to set challenges in practical contexts and to help subject leaders to plan ahead and improve subject provision in order to raise standards.

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Routledge

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1134631081

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Children's Rights Education in Diverse Classrooms

Pedagogy, Principles and Practice

By: Lee Jerome,Hugh Starkey

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Children's Rights Education in Diverse Classrooms

Pedagogy, Principles and Practice

By: Lee Jerome,Hugh Starkey

With PISA tables, accountability, and performance management pulling educators in one direction, and the understanding that education is a social process embedded in cultural contexts, tailored to meet the needs and challenges of individuals and communities in another, it is easy to end up in seeing teachers as positioned as opponents to the 'system'. Jerome and Starkey argue that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) can provide a pragmatic starting point for educators to challenge some of these unsettling trends in a way which does not set up unnecessary opposition with policy-makers. They review the evidence from international evaluations, surveys and case studies about practice in human rights and child right education before exploring the key principles of transformative and experiential education to offer a robust theoretical framework that can guide the development of child rights education. They also draw out practical implications and outline a series of teaching and learning approaches that are values informed, aligned with children's rights and focused on quality learning.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350062839

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Changing Citizenship

Democracy and Inclusion in Education

By: Osler, Audrey,Starkey, Hugh

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Changing Citizenship

Democracy and Inclusion in Education

By: Osler, Audrey,Starkey, Hugh

Changing Citizenship supports educators in understanding the links between global change and the everyday realities of teachers and learners. It explores the role that schools can play in creating a new vision of citizenship for multicultural democracies.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033521181X

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9780335211814

Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500

By: Hugh C. Prince

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Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500

By: Hugh C. Prince

The cultural, political, and economic influences on the changing fortunes of Hertfordshire’s great parks over the past 500 years are examined in this authoritative history. Fascinating accounts of such parks as Hatfield, Moor Park, and Knebworth are illustrated by revisiting each historical era and its prevailing fashions, such as the enthusiasm for deer hunting in the 16th century and the golden age of landscape gardening in the 18th century. Close analysis of each time period’s cartographical sources further supports this fitting record of the county’s green spaces, which ultimately outlines the ongoing decline in Hertfordshire’s parklands, now divided piecemeal between golf courses, schools, and hotels; sold as real estate; or precariously maintained as tourist attractions.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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095421899X

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Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

By: Hugh Dunthorne

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Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

By: Hugh Dunthorne

England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just statesmen and diplomats but also soldiers, merchants, religious refugees, journalists, travellers and students into the conflict. Hugh Dunthorne draws on pamphlet literature to reveal how British contemporaries viewed the progress of their near neighbours' rebellion, and assesses the lasting impact which the Revolt and the rise of the Dutch Republic had on Britain's domestic history. The book explores affinities between the Dutch Revolt and the British civil wars of the seventeenth century - the first major challenges to royal authority in modern times - showing how much Britain's changing commercial, religious and political culture owed to the country's involvement with events across the North Sea.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244315

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Subject Leadership and School Improvement

By: Hugh Busher,Alma Harris

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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

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A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

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Online Interviewing

By: Nalita James,Hugh Busher

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Reasons for Exclusion from School

By: Audrey Osler,Rob Watling,Hugh Busher,Ted Cole,Andy White

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Reasons for Exclusion from School

By: Audrey Osler,Rob Watling,Hugh Busher,Ted Cole,Andy White

This study examined the reasons behind exclusion from school, emphasizing the exclusion of students with special needs, ethnic minority children, and children looked after by local authorities. Data collection included interviews with local education authority (LEA) officers; interviews with teachers and administrators; and documents from the schools and LEAs. Overall, teachers appreciated recent Department for Education and Employment guidance but wanted more training and support in handling and minimizing exclusions. Teachers believed high levels of exclusion related to high levels of student mobility in some areas and to difficulties in accessing resources when excluded students were received from elsewhere. The quality of recordkeeping varied considerably between LEAs, influencing their ability to help schools address the needs of ethnic minority students. Interagency project to minimize exclusion were in their early stages. The needs of certain groups were overlooked in policies designed to minimize exclusion. Some principals increasingly used unofficial exclusions. Many principals reported using both fixed period and permanent exclusion in order to access support for special education. Secondary schools with low exclusion rates generally had alternative flexible curriculum arrangements for vulnerable students. Permanent exclusion was considered a failure on the part of inclusive schools. (SM)

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Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Online Interviewing

Online Interviewing

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

EBOOK: Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power and Culture

EBOOK: Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power and Culture

Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power And Culture

Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power And Culture

Trench Knives and Mustard Gas

Trench Knives and Mustard Gas

Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Effective Subject Leadership

Effective Subject Leadership

Children's Rights Education in Diverse Classrooms

Children's Rights Education in Diverse Classrooms

Changing Citizenship

Changing Citizenship

Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500

Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500

Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

Online Interviewing

Online Interviewing

Reasons for Exclusion from School

Reasons for Exclusion from School

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