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Trentham Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Trentham has changed and developed over the last century.
Remaking the Curriculum
This prescient book illustrates what can be done to provide creative teaching and learning and re-engage bored students, now that schools have been freed from the narrow focus on targets and the standards agenda. Based on an independent two-year research study, it describes what two schools in disadvantaged areas of England did to transform themselves, how they excited and energised staff and students, raised attainment and won the schools Schools of Creativity status. The cross-curricular thematic projects draw on a drama-based pedagogy that brings together students' experiences, real-life issues and the academic curriculum in extended periods of learning. This model of innovative creative ...
Degrees of Choice
An account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an elite to a mass system has been accompanied by much political rhetoric about widening access, achievement-for-all and meritocratic equalisation.
The Broken Circle
"A forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham mystery"--Dust jacket.
An Indecent Invitation
Warning: This book contains spies, scandals, naughty liaisons in houses of ill repute, men who think they know everything and women who know they do not. Read at your own risk! Lady Lily Drummond understands only too well the danger of spy work. Her father, a preeminent master spy, has been missing for months, and her brother barely survived his final mission for the Crown. Lily is still determined to help find her father, no matter how hard her brother and his best friend try to keep her in the dark. Busy trying to untangle the web of deceit surrounding the Earl of Windor’s disappearance, Crown spy Gray Masterson also has to ensure Lily Drummond, the gangly, awkward child who was his cons...
Teachers and Human Rights Education
why do teachers need to be familiar with human rights? In multicultural societies, whose values take precedence? How do schools resolve tensions between children's rights and teachers' rights? --
Equalities and Inequalities in the English Education System
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Equality and inequality models -- 2. Private education -- 3. Teacher training -- 4. Selection and de-selection -- 5. Examination and testing -- 6. Divisions and demarcations: Dis-ability and sexuality -- 7. Inclusion and exclusion: Educational practices -- References -- Index
The Strays
Winner of the Stella Prize for Fiction and the Tina Kane Emergent Writers Award. This is a story of the impact of loss, devotion and obsession, and the demise of one family.
An Everyday Hero
From award-winning author Laura Trentham comesan emotionally layered novel about redemption, second chances and discovering that life is worth fighting for. At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams up in flames. A series of bad decisions and even worse luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she’s supposed to help anyone deal with their trauma and loss when everything that brought her joy has failed her. Then Greer meets fifteen-year-old Ally Martinez, a gifted girl who lost her father in action and now hides her pain behind a mask of sarcasm. But Greer sees something undeniable that she can’t walk away from. To make matters more complicated, Greer finds herself spending more and more time with Emmett Lawson—a man with both physical and emotional scars of his own. When a situation with Ally becomes dire, the two of them must become a team to save her—and along the way they might just save themselves too.
Second Language Learners in International Schools
Available in paperback from mid-December 2018. By 2020 it is estimated that there will be more than ten thousand international schools educating five million students. Native speakers of English, the language of instruction in 90 per cent of these schools, will be in the minority.The learning needs of second language learners in national education systems differ fundamentally from those in the international community. This book argues that second language learners in international schools are better provided for within models of instruction that do not assimilate to any political system; where motivation can come from areas other than wanting to belong to a specific culture; and where studen...
