Volume 15

Editorial

Practical implications of research into the client's experience of counselling

Although a substantial amount of research into the process and outcomes of counselling and psychotherapy has been conducted, relatively little attention has been paid to exploring the experience of the client or user of therapy. Examples of studies that have invited clients to provide accounts of their experiences in counselling...

Mentoring in the North: New provision, new perspectives?

This paper offers a new perspective on early professional development in the one-year PGDE (Professional Graduate Diploma in Education) course, exploring the potential of threshold concepts (troublesome knowledge) in clarifying the process of learning to teach for both experienced and recently appointed university tutors, and their student teachers. The key...

Family Support: Raising educational achievement and tackling social exclusion

This paper derives from an evaluation of the Family Support Service (FSS) within one of the local authority councils in Scotland and its contribution to the development of Integrated Community Schools. The FSS comprises some 46 personnel from a range of backgrounds including education, social work, community education and libraries...

'Ticking the Ethnic Box': The experiences of minority ethnic young people in rural communities

Until recently 'ethnicity' and especially 'race'have rarely been issues associated with rural communities, and the 'invisibility of whiteness as an ethnic signifier' has tended to lead to a lack of problematising the concept of ethnicity within the rural frame of reference. Small numbers, diverse backgrounds and dispersed households combined with...

The Aberdeen Reading Bus: Its journey to date

Research to support Schools of Ambition

Promoting creativity

CPD in Gaelic

Responding to the challenge of curriculum choice

S6@uni: A mixed curriculum for school and university

Educating frontline staff in mental health

Enterprising science and technology

The 'lady techies'

Was TC really like this?

The Sage Handbook of Special Education

Understanding Teacher Expertise in Primary Science: A sociocultural approach

Community Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion (2nd Edition)

Convergence or Divergence? Initial teacher education in Scotland and England

Are We Listening? Making sense of classroom behaviour with pupils and parents