Good Ideas: How to Be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
by Michael Rosen
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Description
We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we’ve been taught often excludes all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture - anything from cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model making, from collecting leaves to playing ‘Who am I?’. The great thing is that you really can use everything around you to learn more.
Learning should be much more fun and former children’s laureate, million-selling author, broadcaster, father of five and all-round national treasure, Michael Rosen wants to show you how. Forget lists, passing tests and ticking boxes, the world outside the classroom can’t be contained within the limits of any kind of curriculum - and it’s all the better for it.
Long car journeys, poems about farting, cake baking, even shouting at the TV can teach lessons that will last a lifetime. Packed with enough practical tips, stories and games to inspire a legion of anxious parents and bored children, Good Ideas shows that the best kind of education really does start at home.
Details
Good Ideas: How to Be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
by Michael Rosen
ISBN
9781444796421
Publisher
John Murray Press
Binding
Hardback
Publication date
Sept. 11, 2014
Dimensions
22.2cm x 14.7cm x 3.4cm
Page count
368 pages