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The Little Ed Book by Guy Claxton
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Writing principally for teachers-in-training and for new teachers, Guy Claxton offers a fresh approach to what is often a stuffy and polemical area. New teachers today are being bombarded from all... -
The Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.95It'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... -
What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education by Guy Claxton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20With 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... -
Education Forward: Moving Schools into the Future by Guy Claxton 9781909979529
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $10.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves by Guy Claxton 9781785832451
Booksplease Price: $24.50In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and... -
The Learning Power Approach: Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves by Guy Claxton 9781506388700
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $29.58Become 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62It 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,... -
Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching Guy Claxton 9781785833373
Booksplease Price: $31.54In Powering Up Children Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary... -
Powering Up Your School: The Learning Power Approach to school leadership Guy Claxton 9781785834561
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Powering Up Students: The Learning Power Approach to high school teaching by Guy Claxton 9781785833380
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.51Guy Claxton and Graham Powell's Powering Up Students details the small tweaks to daily practice that will help secondary school teachers attend more closely to the ways in which they can boost their... -
Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks by Guy Claxton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96An 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 by Gay Watson
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.34Attention is central to everything we do and think; yet it is usually invisible, transparent, lost behind our fixation with content. We pay attention to this and that moment or we let our attention... -
Attention: Beyond Mindfulness Gay Watson 9781789149241
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Attention 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 9781474604710
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39Learning 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... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Learning 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... -
Hubristic Leadership by Eugene Sadler-Smith
Booksplease Price: $108.39Investigating the societal, economic, financial and reputational costs of hubristic leadership, with insights into the characteristics and causes of this phenomenon, and recommended safeguards to... -
New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education by Bill Lucas 9780335236183
Booksplease Price: $39.18"New Kinds of Smart is an intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students to get more of the cornucopia."Professor David Perkins, Harvard... -
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From '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... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond 9781780747484
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.20The 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... -
Personal Well-Being Lessons for Secondary Schools: Positive psychology in action for 11 to 14 year olds by Dr. Ilona Boniwell 9780335246168
Booksplease Price: $45.59This book offers practitioners working with 11 to 14 year olds a highly practical education resource for running personal well-being lessons, backed up by scientific research from the field of... -
Bad Education: Debunking Myths in Education by Philip Adey 9780335246014
Booksplease Price: $40.38"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... -
Understanding and Reducing Anxiety in the Primary School: Theory and Practice for Building a Compassionate Culture for All Educators and Children Shirley Clarke 9781032593784
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.21Everyone working in education, and beyond, is fully aware of the current mental health crisis for pupils. Understanding and Reducing Anxiety in the Primary School combines the expert knowledge of a... -
Developing Expert Learners: A Roadmap for Growing Confident and Competent Students by Michael McDowell 9781544337159
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $35.58Finally- a roadmap for growing students' confidence and competence in learning. We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving...