Open University Press imprint: 307 books

This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped.

This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people.

This book brings together key themes in Childhood Studies to provide an accessible yet scholarly introduction for students and practitioners.

This book offers practical suggestions on how you can engage with particular aspects of the UKPSF, including the dimensions of practice, to achieve HEA accreditation.

This graphic novel, with extra therapist’s notes, allows you to sit in as three fictional couples enter the counselling room.

The book covers a list of key topics that are central or even ‘troublesome’ in lifelong learning with each entry offering a critically informed and up-to-date introduction to the topic.

This essential new self-coaching guide will help students to discover their full potential and bring vitality to their PhD experience and beyond by developing self-sufficiency, resourcefulness and resilience.

Teaching and Learning Early Number is a bestselling guide for all trainee and practising Early Years teachers and classroom assistants. It provides an accessible guide to a wide range of research evidence about the teaching and learning of early number.

Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools, 2e presents an accessible guide to current British and Dutch research into numeracy teaching.

This is a succinct and easy-to-read pocket guide for students and practitioners, making links between how children learn and what adults need to do to support their learning and development within the framework of the EYFS.

The book guides the student through the research process relevant to the completion of a social work dissertation.

The text provides practical guidance on carrying out qualitative research and introduces four widely used qualitative approaches.

This book explores the practice of teaching secondary English, engaging teachers with theory and policies to enable them to reflect on their processes.

As Ben Goldacres Guardian Bad Science column debunks popular scientific myths, this book aims to do the same for education myths and unjustified claims.