Böcker av Jon Davison

This comprehensive guide to clown training invites you into the clown workshop and leads you through a complete clown syllabus - from the first steps in playfulness to the work of devising and creating performable numbers and shows.

An introduction to the social purposes and aims contained in the revised National Curriculum. It provides the theory behind the movement for social literacy and information for practitioners on putting the government's ideas into practice.

An examination of the nature of effective mentoring and its contribution to student teacher development. The book has a broad perspective and looks at policy developments and the differing approaches to teacher education, and explores central issues which have emerged in recent research.

Invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching. This book will stimulate all those interested in education to reflect on the identity of the subject and its principles and practice.

Using practical and jargon-free activities, this book analyzes the eight new standards implemented by the General Teaching Council, describing what student teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status.

This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.