Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn - Couverture souple

Claxton, Guy

 
9781845909543: Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn

Synopsis

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. 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 and employers and drawing on Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas' years of experience in education, including their work with Building Learning Power and the Expansive Education Network, this powerful new book is sure to provoke thinking and debate. Just as Willy Russell's Educating Rita helped us rethink university, the authors of Educating Ruby invite fresh scrutiny of our schools.

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À propos de l?auteur

Prof 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. An internationally renowned cognitive scientist, Guy's books include 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind'; 'Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning'; and with Bill and others, 'New Kinds of Smart' and 'The Learning Powered School'. Guy's Building Learning Power approach to education is widely used in all kinds of schools across the UK, as well as in Poland, Dubai, Indonesia, India, China, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina.

Prof Bill Lucas is Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester. An acknowledged thought-leader in education, Bill has been a school leader and the founder of two national educational charities. With Guy Claxton he created the Expansive Education Network for schools who see the goals of education as including much that is central to Educating Ruby. As an author, often with Guy Claxton, he has written more than forty widely translated books which have sold more than half a million copies, including `Help your Child to Succeed`, and, for the BBC, `Happy Families: how to make one, how to keep one`. Bill is in demand across the world as a researcher, speaker and facilitator.

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