 | How Children Fail by John Holt
Buy used from: £2.93 The ultimate must read book on why schools don't work and how kids learn- not so much of a fan of How children Learn.
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 | Teaching as a Subversive Activity by N. Postman
Buy used from: £5.59 For questioners everywhere- a classic for good reason
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 | Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Strategies for Every Learner by Paul Ginnis
Buy new: £24.24 / Used from: £23.99 Lots of great active learning strategies, superbly written
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 | Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £4.36 Another classic to really make you think. A great and very readable thesis on the real driving force behind modern education and why tinkering round the edges aint going to change a thing.
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 | You Know the Fair Rule: Strategies for Making the Hard Job of Discipline in Schools Easier by Rogers. Bill
Buy new: £17.04 / Used from: £11.00 A really useful, realistic, humourous and enlightened guide to classroom discipline
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 | And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-based Education by David H. Albert
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £2.43 True education. one family's inspiring adventures in home schooling- if only we could all have such wonderful learning journeys.
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 | Free Range Education: How Home Education Works
Buy used from: £6.89 An English group of case studies from home schooling families.
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 | The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
Buy new: £8.03 / Used from: £7.27 Initially extreme sounding if you're used to prescribed curricula and timetables, but ultimately inspiring.
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 | Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.99 Dispells the Skinnerian behaviourist myths which have become enshrined in our culture: gold stars do not a good child make and praise is just as damaging as punishment. Infact anything by this author
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 | Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard Gardner
Buy new: £9.19 / Used from: £8.71 A broader view of intelligence
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 | You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six (Early Years) by Rahima Baldwin
Buy new: £9.72 / Used from: £8.38 Spiritully informed holistic hands on education for pre schoolers
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