Janet Grant – författare

Theatre for Children, by David Wood with Janet Grant, is a practical and comprehensive guide, essential for anyone involved in making theatre for children.Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting in plays for children for more than fifty years. In 2026, he received an Industry Recognition Olivier Award. His best known work, from his play The Gingerbread Man to his adaptations of Roald Dahl's The BFG and The Witches, has enjoyed national and international professional success and entered the repertory of amateur companies and school dramatic societies.Now David has written the definitive book on theatre for children. He analyses the skills involved in entertaining audiences of children everywhere and reveals his special techniques for catching and holding a child's attention. This practical, step-by-step comprehensive guide is essential reading for professionals and amateurs alike, and anyone wanting to be involved in theatre for children.

Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting in plays for children for more than twenty-five years. His best known work, from his play The Gingerbread Man to his adaptations of Roald Dahl's The BFG and The Witches have enjoyed national and international professional success and entered the repertory of amateur companies and school dramatic societies. Now David has written the definitive book on theatre for children. He analyses the skills involved in entertaining audiences of children everywhere and reveals his special techniques for catching and holding a child's attention. This practical, step-by-step comprehensive guide is essential reading for professionals and amateurs alike, and anyone wanting to be involved in theatre for children.

The role of continuing professional development (CPD) is increasingly crucial for regulators, educationalists and the healthcare profession. In terms of continued fitness to practise and patient safety, as well as maintaining professional standards, a more thoughtful, evidence-based and transparent approach should be considered. This book provides a concise overview of the literature whilst drawing on doctors'' experiences, offering a practical approach to managing CPD. The systematic method ensures the interests of the service and regulators are met whilst enhancing the importance of high quality patient care and the needs of doctors as individuals. It focuses on the following key aspects: Relating CPD to the needs of the changing and developing health care service

The role of continuing professional development (CPD) is increasingly crucial for regulators, educationalists and the healthcare profession. In terms of continued fitness to practise and patient safety, as well as maintaining professional standards, a more thoughtful, evidence-based and transparent approach should be considered. This book provides a concise overview of the literature whilst drawing on doctors'' experiences, offering a practical approach to managing CPD. The systematic method ensures the interests of the service and regulators are met whilst enhancing the importance of high quality patient care and the needs of doctors as individuals. It focuses on the following key aspects: Relating CPD to the needs of the changing and developing health care service

The role of continuing professional development (CPD) is increasingly crucial for regulators, educationalists and the healthcare profession. In terms of continued fitness to practise and patient safety, as well as maintaining professional standards, a more thoughtful, evidence-based and transparent approach should be considered. This book provides a concise overview of the literature whilst drawing on doctors' experiences, offering a practical approach to managing CPD. The systematic method ensures the interests of the service and regulators are met whilst enhancing the importance of high quality patient care and the needs of doctors as individuals. It focuses on the following key aspects: Relating CPD to the needs of the changing and developing health care service

This book presents a political view of medical education based on dialectical analysis of a range of practice. This approach, and the contradictions that it reveals, will enable anyone with an interest in medical education development, or in teaching or researching medical education, to do so systematically, critically and constructively for their own context. How the analysis of medical education was built is described. It also offers relevant academic commentary on the practice that forms that basis of the political view. The issues addressed include assessment, curriculum, teaching methods, social issues, identity, professional values, management, undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education, and the process of becoming an educationalist. These are widely discussed topics in medical education, not yet unified on the basis of a critical theoretical framework. Education is a social science so the book is guided to understand the links between natural science theories that underpin medicine, to the social science theory that underpins medical education.This book is ground-breaking, in being the first and only political analysis developed specifically for medical education, and based on the practice of that discipline in a variety of contexts in the global north and the global south. The academic commentaries clarify the relationship between the political analysis of medical education and the existing content of the discipline that is widely taught and used. This view of medical education will enable those working, teaching, studying or researching in this field to analyse, criticise, understand, challenge, and build on current knowledge and practice appropriately to their own context.