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The Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $43.87It's time for the educational slugfest to stop. 'Traditional' and 'progressive' education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for... -
Education Forward: Moving Schools into the Future by Guy Claxton 9781909979529
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $16.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education by Guy Claxton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.48With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today's schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down... -
The Learning Power Approach: Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves by Guy Claxton 9781506388700
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $48.15Become mind-fit for life! Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge and skills, but also positive learning attitudes and habits of mind. Guy Claxton's The... -
Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn Guy Claxton 9781845909543
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity,... -
Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks by Guy Claxton
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates... -
Attention: Beyond Mindfulness Gay Watson 9781789149241
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Attention is central to everything we do and think, and underlies both the mindfulness revolution and concerns about the influence of social and digital media today. In this book Gay Watson explores... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch with human progress. We live in an... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard 9781474604710
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.65Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. Our education predicts how much we'll earn, how content we will be, even how long we'll live. But... -
Hubristic Leadership by Eugene Sadler-Smith
Booksplease Price: $176.44Investigating the societal, economic, financial and reputational costs of hubristic leadership, with insights into the characteristics and causes of this phenomenon, and recommended safeguards to... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond 9781780747484
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and... -
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attentionIn this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew... -
Bad Education: Debunking Myths in Education by Philip Adey 9780335246014
Booksplease Price: $65.73"This is an important and welcome book. Readers can see the faults of simplistic judgments, neglect of evidence, dismissal of researchers, and injudicious implementation."From the foreword by Paul...