Provides a more detailed consideration of the fundamental issues in staff & educational development, analysing the context in which it functions, the roles undertaken by practitioners & also ways in which staff & educational development can be promoted & managed in senior & institutional levels. ...

Offering an introduction to middle school teaching, this title focuses on the instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability & standardized testing. It follows a constructivist approach to teaching that considers the whole child. ...

Analyses the effectiveness of innovation efforts, presenting challenges to the traditional approaches whilst developing contemporary theories. Focusing on the interplay between three key players
- knowledge organisations, firms & the public sector
- this volume is suitable for those involved in science & technology & business & management.

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Compares three historical apocalypses of the second century BCE found in the books of Enoch & Daniel & inquires into their sociological setting. This book indicates that not only was Judaism of that period heterogeneous, but that even within Jewish apocalypticism there were different responses to the political & religious environment. ...

Helena Bonham Carter stars in this feature-length BBC biopic as children's author Enid Blyton. An astoundingly prolific writer revered by an adoring readership, Blyton was, in her personal life, a self-absorbed, ruthlessly ambitious woman who manipulated those close to her for her own advantage. After driving her first husb&, publisher Major Hugh Pollock (Matthew Mac Fadyen) to drink & into the arms of another woman, Enid uses their two daughters, Gillian & Imogen (Sinead Michael & Ramona Marquez) as bargaining chips to get a divorce on her terms before marrying her lover, Doctor Kenneth Waters (Denis Lawson). Despite her image as a children's champion, Blyton willfully neglects her own children & packs them off to boarding school when they dare to challenge her. ...

This study looks particularly at Enid Blyton's " Noddy", The Famous Five & " Malory Towers". It draws extensively on the view of her readership, past & present, & uses a variety of critical approaches to show how adult criticism has consistently missed the secret of her appeal. ...