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Title: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education

ISBN: 9781472913111

Subject Area: Education

Publication Name: Intelligent Person's Guide to Education

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Item Length: 8.5 in

Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, Administration / School Superintendents & Principals, History, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

Publication Year: 2015

Type: Textbook

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1 in

Author: Tony Little

Item Weight: 14.8 Oz

Item Width: 5.6 in

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-10

1472913116

ISBN-13

9781472913111

eBay Product ID (ePID)

203577856

Product Key Features

Number of Pages

288 Pages

Language

English

Publication Name

Intelligent Person's Guide to Education

Publication Year

2015

Subject

Educational Policy & Reform / General, Administration / School Superintendents & Principals, History, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

Type

Textbook

Author

Tony Little

Subject Area

Education

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

1 in

Item Weight

14.8 Oz

Item Length

8.5 in

Item Width

5.6 in

Additional Product Features

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Here is a man who has spent a lifetime getting to know children well, and has been thinking as hard about what they need as their parents have . [ An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education ] is a humane and committed introduction to how the rest of us, parents and teachers alike, can use our own common sense

Dewey Decimal

370.941

Synopsis

Tony Little is The Head Master of Eton. One of the most progressive and imaginative people in British education today he has hitherto kept a low profile. This book, published to coincide with his retirement, sets out his educational fundamentals.There is a crisis in the British education system. Year on year GCSE and A Level pupils post better exam results, with more students achieving top grades. Yet business leaders and employers complain bitterly that our schools are not producing people fit for purpose. Far from being locked in an ivory tower, a bastion of privilege, Mr Little has used his time as a teacher and headmaster to get to grips with fundamental questions concerning education. He wants to produce people fit to work in the modern world. How do children absorb information? What kind of people does society need? What is education for? Not only is the author one of the great reforming headmasters of our time but he has planted Academies in the East end of London, founded a state boarding school near Windsor and yet is a passionate advocate of single sex schools.This book is not a text book for colleges of education - it is a book to enlighten the teaching profession and just as much for anxious parents. The book is simply arranged under topics such as authority, expectations, progress, self-confidence, sex, crises and creativity.Tony Little thinks it is time to ask some fundamental questions, and to make brave decisions about how we make our schools and our schoolchildren fit for purpose., Tony Little is The Headmaster of Eton. One of the most progressive and imaginative people in British education today he has hitherto kept a low profile. This book accompanies a three part television series to be screened on BBC 2 but differs from it significantly. There is a crisis in the British education system. Year on year GCSE and A Level pupils post better exam results, with more students achieving top grades. Yet business leaders and employers complain bitterly that our schools are not producing people fit for purpose. What we have become is a nation Over schooled and under educated . Far from being locked in an ivory tower, a bastion of privilege, Mr Little has used his time as a teacher and headmaster to get to grips with fundamental questions concerning education. He wants to produce people fit to work in the modern world. How do children absorb information? What kind of people does society need? What is education for? Not only is the author one of the great reforming headmasters of our time but he has planted Academies in the East end of London, founded a state boarding school near Windsor and yet is a passionate advocate of single sex schools. This book is not a text book for colleges of education- it is a book to enlighten the teaching profession and just as much for anxious parents. The book is simply arranged under topics such as authority, expectations, progress, self-confidence, sex, crises and creativity. Tony Little thinks it is time to ask some fundamental questions, and to make brave decisions about how we make our schools and our schoolchildren fit for purpose.

LC Classification Number

LA631.83