Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up
From the international bestselling author of The ElementKen Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education. In this inspiring, empowering book, he sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and groundbreaking research, it will inspire the change
From the international bestselling author of The ElementKen Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education. In this inspiring, empowering book, he sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and groundbreaking research, it will inspire the change our children urgently need.’Compelling …, an elegant, powerfully written manifesto for change’ Tristram Hunt, Guardian ‘Inspires and brings a new sense of possibility to the goal of transforming education . . ., This is a global game-changer’ Brene Brown, author of Daring Greatly’Wonderful and enjoyable’ Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate
Do YOU care about education? Sir Ken has been criticised for not proffering solutions in his TED talks and other book.This book is the answer to those cries and shows example of how great schools, teachers and our children might be through examples of great schools.It’s a great, easy and inspiring read and, given one or two nasty reviews, clearly terrifies the few people who are determined to repeat the sins of our fathers with out dated education systems and approaches that process our children on…
An Alternative to the Standards Movement Criticising the status quo in education is easy. Providing well thought through alternatives with illustrations of how these alternatives are working in practice elsewhere is much more difficult. Ken Robinson manages to do both in this engaging and timely book. I am loathe to suggest that anything ought to be compulsory. Suffice to say that politicians with an interest in or responsibility for education and practitioners at all levels would gain much from having a thoughtful read of this text…
An Important New Way To Approach Education This is an intelligent, practical & lucid book which argues compellingly for a fresh approach to how we educate this & future generations. We need to prepare them for a world which is very different to that which first required mass education by the state i.e. to deal with the Industrial Revolution, mass production & its social consequences. This book should be part of our government’s education manifesto, whatever political colour they paint themselves.