Part 1: Early Learning 1. Passion, Paradox and Professionalism in Early Years Education 2. Scaffolding Learning through Meaningful Tasks and Adult Interaction 3. Rhetoric and Reality in Developing Language and Mathematics Skill Part 2: Teaching and Learning Strategies 4. Investigating Pupils' Questions in the Primary Classroom 5. The Two Rs - Rules and Relationships 6. Learning and Teaching StylesPart 3: Teaching the Wider Curriculum 7. The Potential Impact of the Literacy Hour on the Teaching of Science for Text Material 8. Thinking Skills: The Question of Generality 9. On the Concept of Manner and its Visibility in Teaching Practice Part 4: Education for All 10. Shaun's Story: Troubling Discources of White Working Class Masculinities 11. School Trouble: A Mother's Burden 12. Pupil Participation and Pupil Perspective: Carving a New Order of Experience Part 5: Managing Teaching and Learning 13. Performance-related Pay and the Teaching Profession: A Review of the Literature 14. Effective Leadership and Departmental Improvement 15. The Female Secondary Headteacher in England and Wales: Leadership and Management StylesPart 6: Teaching and Teacher Education 16. Student Teachers and Attitudes towards Race 17. Mentors' Perceptions of their Roles in School-Based Teacher Training in England and Germany 18. Teacher Stress: Directions for Future Research