The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards cover the following issues:

• expectations, diversity and achievement
• personal and professional values
• values in the classroom
• values, rights and responsibilities in the wider community
• the community of the school
• professional...

Suitable for teachers delivering Media Studies and media education in school and college, this title covers: the key concepts and pedagogy underpinning media education; practical ways into teaching and learning the key media concepts, illustrated by case studies of integrating theory and production work in the classroom; and, more.

Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides students and researchers in education with an informed insight and understanding of the nature the development of the field of Educational Studies in the United Kingdom since the Second World War. It also assesses the current position of Educational Studies and explores the possibilities for the...

This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.