Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

Forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black.

Everyone knows schools need rethinking ' our political and educational worlds teem with critiques and proposals. But few speak from the heart: from the perspectives and concerns of teachers, children and families as human beings (rather than as deliverers or recipients of the curriculum).

For many people, Willy Russell's Educating Rita offered a radical insight into the then class-ridden world of universities. In Educating Ruby, acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas imagine how school life could be more fulfilling for a latter-day Rita, now named Ruby.

Bill and Guy show 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 achieve well in public examinations.

Educating Ruby is a powerful call to action for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world. It 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.

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Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

Forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black.

Everyone knows schools need rethinking ' our political and educational worlds teem with critiques and proposals. But few speak from the heart: from the perspectives and concerns of teachers, children and families as human beings (rather than as deliverers or recipients of the curriculum).

For many people, Willy Russell's Educating Rita offered a radical insight into the then class-ridden world of universities. In Educating Ruby, acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas imagine how school life could be more fulfilling for a latter-day Rita, now named Ruby.

Bill and Guy show 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 achieve well in public examinations.

Educating Ruby is a powerful call to action for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world. It 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.

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Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

by Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas
Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn

by Guy Claxton, Bill Lucas

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Forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black.

Everyone knows schools need rethinking ' our political and educational worlds teem with critiques and proposals. But few speak from the heart: from the perspectives and concerns of teachers, children and families as human beings (rather than as deliverers or recipients of the curriculum).

For many people, Willy Russell's Educating Rita offered a radical insight into the then class-ridden world of universities. In Educating Ruby, acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas imagine how school life could be more fulfilling for a latter-day Rita, now named Ruby.

Bill and Guy show 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 achieve well in public examinations.

Educating Ruby is a powerful call to action for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world. It 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845909543
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Publication date: 06/01/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Tanya Byron iii

Foreword Octavius Black vii

1 Causes for concern 1

2 Why old school won't work 19

3 Competence and character 55

4 What's worth learning these days? 83

5 Reasons to be cheerful 113

6 What parents can do at home 153

7 A call to action 171

Thirty ways you could help a local school 195

A selection of thought-provoking books 199

About the authors 203

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