Product Description: MasterClass in Music Education provides vivid, topical, reflective and above all ‘real' accounts from existing teachers researching in the field, together with theoretical insights and a guided view of the relevant existing literature...read more

Product Description: Contact is a practical, hands-on booklet that helps churches make the most of their connections with those outside the church. Most churches find that setting-up a course for non-churchgoers to explore Christianity is not the most difficult task – getting them to come is the real test...read more

Product Description: John Finney examines the child-centred progressive tradition to create a fresh way of evaluating ideas and practices that have evolved since 1950, that have shaped the lives of music teachers and their pupils, and that have now become disfigured, residual and altogether lost in the light of social, cultural and political change...read more

This book draws together a range of innovative practices, underpinned by theoretical insight, to clarify musical practices of relevance to the changing nature of schooling and the transformation of music education and addresses a pressing need to provide new ways of thinking about the application of music and technology in schools. The contributors covers a diverse and wide-range of technology, environments and contexts on topics that demonstrate and recognize new possibilities for innovative work in education, exploring teaching strategies and approaches that stimulate different forms of musical experience, meaningful engagement, musical learning, creativity and teacher-learner interactions, responses, monitoring and assessment.

Product Description: Fortify your organization with strategic employee communication. Structured on the three steps vital to any communication program planning, implementation and evaluation this manual is designed as a start-to-finish solution for professionals executing or supervising new employee communication initiatives...read more

Product Description: John Finney offers a wide-ranging and often provocative analysis of currrent thinking and practice a bout the future of mission in a society where the influence of churches is in decline.