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Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn
Guy Claxton
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Description for Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn
Paperback. With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 286.
It 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, commitment and craftsmanship in children, at the same time as helping them to do well in public examinations. Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn shows, unequivocally, that schools can get the right results in the right way, so that the Rubys of tomorrow will emerge from their time at school able to talk with honest pleasure and reflective optimism about their schooling. Featuring the views of schoolchildren, parents, educators ... Read more
It 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, commitment and craftsmanship in children, at the same time as helping them to do well in public examinations. Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn shows, unequivocally, that schools can get the right results in the right way, so that the Rubys of tomorrow will emerge from their time at school able to talk with honest pleasure and reflective optimism about their schooling. Featuring the views of schoolchildren, parents, educators ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Crown House Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845909543
SKU
V9781845909543
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Guy Claxton
Guy Claxton is Emeritus Professor at Winchester University and Visiting Professor of Education at King's College London. He has previously taught and researched at Oxford University, Bristol University, and the University of London Institute of Education, and is an internationally renowned cognitive scientist. Guy's books include Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind; Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning; The Wayward Mind; ... Read more
Reviews for Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn
A powerful, heartfelt and expert analyss of what's going wrong in the education of our children and how to put it right.
Sir Ken Robinson "Author"
Sir Ken Robinson "Author"