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Educating Ruby : what our children really need to learn : confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, commitment and craftsmanship /

By: Claxton, Guy
Title By: Lucas, Bill | Byron, Tanya [Foreword by] | Black, Octavius [Foreword by]
Publisher: Wales, UK : Crown House, 2015.Description: viii, 205 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 1845909542; 9781845909Subject(s): Education -- Great Britain | Education | Great BritainDDC classification: 372.1192 CL ED Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
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 education 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 who goes to university, the authors of Educating Ruby invite fresh scrutiny of our schools.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		372.1192 CL ED (Browse shelf) Available Dec2018 T0061522
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Foreword by Professor Tanya Byron --
Foreword by Octavius Black --
1. Causes for concern --
2. Why old school won't work --
3. Competence and character --
4. What's worth learning these days? --
5. Reasons to be cheerful --
6. What parents can do at home --
7. A call to action --
Thirty ways you could help a local school --
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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 education 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 who goes to university, the authors of Educating Ruby invite fresh scrutiny of our schools.

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