A selection of great books

About Education and Learning that will challenge you to think and act differently.

Peter Greenhalgh

The last ten years have seen huge advances in our understanding of how the mind works and how we think and learn to learn most effectively. The following represents a selection of books that get across those messages most powerfully.

Emotional Intelligence: Why It can Matter More Than IQ; Daniel Goleman PhD (Bloomsbury, 1996)

Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning; Guy Claxton (Network Educational Press, 2001) – see also “Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind” by the same author

The Brain's Behind It: New Knowledge about the Brain and Learning; Alistair Smith (Network Educational Press 2002)

Frames Of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence; Howard Gardner (Fontana, London, 1993); also Intelligence Reframed (Basic Books, 1999)

Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not all In your Head; Carla Hannaford (Great Ocean Publishers, 1995)

Mapwise: Accelerated Learning through Visible Thinking; Oliver Caviglioli and Ian Harris (Network Educational Press 2000)

Strategies For Closing The Learning Gap, Mike Hughes, (Network Educational Press, 2001)

Co-operative Learning, Spencer Kagan, (Kagan Publishing, 1985)

Accelerated Learning In Practice: Brain Based Methods for Accelerating Motivation and Achievement; Alistair Smith (Network Educational Press, 1998)

Use Your Head, Tony Buzan, (BBC Active, 2006)

The ALPS Approach: Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools; Alistair Smith and Nicola Call (Network Educational Press, 1999) see also “The Alps Resource Book”

The Thinking Child (accelerated learning in the foundation stage) Nicola Call (Network Educational Press 2002) also look out for the accompanying resource book

The Teachers Toolkit, Paul Ginnis,(Crown House Publishing, 2002)

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment, Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, (Open University Press, 1998)

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School; Bransford, J.D. et al, editors, National Research Council (US), (National Academy Press, 2000)

The Shape of Things to Come, Charles Leadbetter, (DfES/NCSL, 2004)

About Learning, Report of the Learning Working Group, (DEMOS www.demos.co.uk, 2004)

All Our Futures, Ken Robinson et al, (NACCCE Report, 1999)

 

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