Good Ideas: How to be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher

Author(s): Michael Rosen

Children

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.

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Learning can 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.

Michael Rosen is uniquely placed to write this book. He is a former Children's Laureate and the bestselling author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt (which won the Smarties Best Book of the Year Award) and many other books. He has also presented Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 since 1998. But he also has a Phd in Education, been awarded five extra honorary doctorates by various universities and made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French government. In 2013 he became Professor of Education Studies at Goldsmiths. Find out more on Michael's website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk

General Fields

  • : 9781444799149
  • : John Murray General Publishing Division
  • : John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • : July 2014
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 336
  • : 649.1
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Michael Rosen