Product Description: This is a deliberately provocative book. It critiques current student behaviour management practices, seeks to explain the flawed assumptions that justify those practices, and proposes how things could be better for children in our schools if different practices were adopted...read more

Product Description: This captivating book goes where other history books fear to tread: historys military blunders. Often though, more is learned from failure than triumph. Iconic battles covered include the Battle of New Orleans, the Battle of Antietam, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Battle of Stalingrad, among many others...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: "New Kinds of Smart is an intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students to get more of the cornucopia." Professor David Perkins, Harvard University, USA "This is an important and welcome book...read more

Product Description: In rEvolution, best-selling author Bill Lucas puts forward suggestions on some of the ways we can all succeed in today's complex world. In the coming decades, we face significant global challenges in terms of climate change, biodiversity, food and water resources and violent extremism...read more

Product Description: With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity...read more

Offers an exploration of a different science of learning. Including teaching and learning strategies, this book aims to transform the way any teacher sees their subject. It details lesson ideas which can be applied to various curriculum subjects.

Research shows just how critically important parents are to schools, particularly in helping to raise standards of pupil attainment, developing children's confidence and extending the range of educational opportunities which schools can offer. Part of the 'The Teachers' Guide' series this work is a guide to involving parents in schools.

An accessible program for improving one's memory and mental agility is specifically designed for busy readers and includes step-by-step exercises for building lateral thought proficiency, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities. Original.

Product Description: Bill Lucas, a leading expert on lifelong learning and education, reveals simple ways to overcome personal barriers to learning, master powerful new skills and unlock the door to greater success in work, study, sport ... whatever your age...read more

Product Description: Fruto de una investigación en una amplia variedad de disciplinas, desde la neurociencia hasta la psicología, desde la teoría de la motivación hasta el aprendizaje acelerado, desde la memoria hasta la dieta, este libro demuestra que todo el mundo tiene capacidad para triunfar y que la mayoría de la gente sólo utiliza una pequeña parte de su talento...read more

Product Description: As a result of the success of Help Your Child to Succeed Parent's Guide - and in resonse to requests from teachers, Family Learning workers and a variety of local authority staff - we have developed this Toolkit of training materials...read more

Product Description: Bill Lucas, a leading international expert on life-long learning, shows that while we have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than we have ever known, only a fraction of this is grasped and applied by most people...read more

Product Description: Knowledge about Language is a key element of the national curriculum for English, designed to encourage an enjoyment and understanding of the English language, as well as an awareness of the importance of languages in general. Looking at Language provides a core of Knowledge about Language, with examples and activities which serve a real purpose, developing pupils' sensitivity to the many different ways in which language can be used, and providing them with an appropriate vocabulary to describe its most important features...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)