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£17.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637952 | ISBN 10: 1629637955
There once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away, both centralised and privatised, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788732208 | ISBN 10: 1788732200
A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first century.
Our education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essenti ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338200 | ISBN 10: 0745338208
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolon ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241301111 | ISBN 10: 0241301114
Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless by treating them as passive, silent recipients of knowledge. Grounded in Freire's own experience ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509504275 | ISBN 10: 1509504273
The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780823268801 | ISBN 10: 0823268802
The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444796445 | ISBN 10: 1444796445
We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781479898053 | ISBN 10: 1479898058
This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigr ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780415538404 | ISBN 10: 0415538408
One of the most influential educational philosophers of our times, Paulo Freire contributed to a revolutionary understanding of education as an empowering and democratizing force in the lives of the disenfranchised. In this deeply personal introducti ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415561914 | ISBN 10: 0415561914
* The average child watches between 20,000 and 40,000 adverts a year.
* Girls as young as six are cutting down on what they eat to stay thinner.
* Three quarters of ten and eleven year olds would like to change their appearance.
Body image ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906694876 | ISBN 10: 1906694877
Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure f ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780814757215 | ISBN 10: 0814757219
In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, Strike down the wall! and liberates itself from the egg state. In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it. ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780767931724 | ISBN 10: 0767931726
"There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet...What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of u ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745329314 | ISBN 10: 0745329314
This book tells the remarkable story of Birzeit University, Palestine's oldest university in the Occupied Territories. Founded against the backdrop of occupation, it is open to all students, irrespective of income. Putting the study of democracy and ... more
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£8.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781903080122 | ISBN 10: 1903080126
England has 25 contemporary monster schools of more than 2,000 students, four times as many as a decade ago. There are 263 English secondaries twice as many as when Labour took office of 1,500 to 2,000 students. Large schools are cost effecti ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781845901356 | ISBN 10: 1845901355
We live in a society consumed by materialism and the desire for more. Does this mean our next generation of children will grow up being literate and numerate greedy consumers whose lives are judged by the size of their houses and the latest model BMW ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781904859833 | ISBN 10: 1904859836
What's wrong with our education? School!
Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certificationeverything except how to best help kids develop learning skills. Everywhere All the Time presen ... more
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£30.00 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780826495136 | ISBN 10: 0826495133
This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415368810 | ISBN 10: 0415368812
Essential Creativity is about giving all children the opportunity to fulfil their potential. It is about developing real partnerships between parents, teachers, businesses and the community, identifying best practice, finding teachers that are inspir ... more
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£28.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781594510519 | ISBN 10: 1594510512
The last book written by Paulo Freire before his death, Pedagogy of Indignation speaks to the necessity of making and remaking oneself throughout a lifetime, the role of education in personal development, and the daily life tensions between freedom a ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781858563381 | ISBN 10: 1858563380
This book is a song of resistance. Drawing on cross-cultural perspectives from Pakistan, Israel, Canada, the US and the UK, the authors challenge readers to envision new ways of thinking for education, ways which draw on imagination, the arts and the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students whose ranks included substance abus ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781551641706 | ISBN 10: 1551641704
No one is completely satisfied with the grades they get on exams or with the life that comes along with it. This book explains why, shows how the two are related and - with the help of stories, jokes, cartoons, games, myths, statistics, pop quizzes, ... more
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£7.95 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781900219082 | ISBN 10: 1900219085
When asked how they feel about their schooling, children from many walks of life seem to have a single one-word answer: "boring!" Yet children are not naturally bored by the world. This simple act alone should surely prompt us to ask why this should ... more
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£8.95 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9781900219013 | ISBN 10: 1900219018
Very little exists that describes the feelings and thoughts of learners about school. Even less exists about the views of five-year-old young people during the first year of their long, 15,000 hour schooling journey. This book explores their viewpoin ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780201484021 | ISBN 10: 0201484021
In this absorbing study, John Holt uses his lifelong experience in education to answer the questions: Why do children fail? What really goes on in the classroom? What goes on in children's heads? The last chapter is entitled How Schools Fail? which s ... more
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£11.99 paperback (1983) - ISBN 13: 9780140136005 | ISBN 10: 0140136002
"Children do not need to be made to learn, told what to learn, or shown how...If we give them access to enough of the world, including our own lives and work in that world, they will see what things are truly important to us and to others, and they w ... more
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£8.95 paperback (1971) - ISBN 13: 9780714508795 | ISBN 10: 0714508799
Thirty-odd years since publication and still, unfortunately, a classic and necessary critique of schooling. Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting misleading notions of "progress" and development fostered by the belief that ever-increas ... more
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