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Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World´s Education Superpowers
Lucy Crehan
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Description for Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World´s Education Superpowers
Hardback. As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan became curious about what was really going on in classrooms of the countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Determined to dig deeper, Lucy set off on a personal educational odyssey. In this book, she documents her journey. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JNK; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 147 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from `top-performing' education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan's journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology and culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries.
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from `top-performing' education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan's journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology and culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries.
Product Details
Publisher
Unbound
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783522736
SKU
V9781783522736
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About Lucy Crehan
Lucy Crehan is a qualified teacher, an education explorer and an international education consultant. She taught science and psychology at a secondary school in London for three years before turning her sights to research and policy and gaining a distinction in her master's in Politics, Development and Democratic Education at the University of Cambridge. Since returning from ... Read more
Reviews for Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World´s Education Superpowers
Lucy Crehan's book is refreshingly fair-minded and makes a case that there is a lot to learn about how other countries learn.
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Audacious and important . . . Cleverlands is not just for specialists: it's a wry and accessible narrative of personal enterprise.
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