Ted Wragg has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. This book offers his key writings in one place for the first time. This internationally renowned author starts with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of his career and contextualizes his selection. The chapters cover: * classroom teaching and learning * training new and experienced teachers * curriculum in action * educational policy and its implementation * communicating with professional and lay people. During his thirty-year career Ted Wragg has contributed to over forty books and 1,000 articles to the field and is regularly required to commentate on educational issues for the media. Part of the "World Library of Educationalists" series celebrating the contributions made to education by leading figures. Each scholar has selected their own key writings from across numerous books and journal articles, often spread across two or more decades and presented in a single volume. Through these books, readers can follow the development of each scholar's contribution to their field, as well as the development of the fields themselves.