"'Creating Learning without Limits' takes on one of the most important issues in education today. In the last decade schools in England have taken a path towards putting all children into boxes, attaching a level to their heads and deciding what they are capable of achieving. This book shows the possibility of a different educational path, one in which all students are encouraged to achieve the greatest they can. Importantly the book also documents ways in which courageous teachers can do this - promoting fair and engaging learning environments for all students. This is a must-read for educators, policy makers and parents alike." Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education, Stanford University, California. Formerly a teacher and researcher at the Universities of London and Sussex. 
 "This will undoubtedly turn out to be amongst the most important educational books of the decade. Our capacity to respond, both individually and collectively, to its key insights and messages will profoundly affect not just the quality of our schools, but of our society for years to come. 
 Engagingly and eloquently written, it exposes the intellectual bankruptcy and human destructiveness of widely held concepts of 'ability' and offers a richly textured, practical account of how one school moved from 'failure' to OfSTED 'outstanding' by committing itself to the practicability of a morally inspiring, educationally convincing alternative. 
 If you want to know why 'the standards agenda' must inevitably fail and what we might do instead, read this book." Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK 
 "This is an inspiring and reviving book. It reminds us why people come into education - to make a difference for children. To make a deep difference we have to organize education differently. It describes a school that vibrates with learning in an atmosphere of deep humanity and care. Its practices are light years away from the measuring, labelling, targeting, and testing structures that have become our recent national norm. The school as a whole community transforms people." Anne Watson, Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Oxford, UK 
 "This book provides a grounded demonstration of the importance of educational principles, the most important of which is the understanding that each child's potential for learning is limitless. The authors describe new school and classroom practices through which learning can be transformed. Their argument has influenced government thinking on the review of the National Curriculum in England. I urge you to let it influence your thinking too!" Professor Andrew Pollard, Institute of Education, University of London, UK 
 "This is a brilliant study of a small and very successful primary school in Hertfordshire where the teachers have rejected ideas of fixed innate ability and believe instead in the limitless potential of all young people. At a time when the Ofsted inspection process employs dubious and limited notions of 'standards' and 'achievement', it would be good to think that there could be many more schools like this one showing the way towards a new and liberating view of human development. The book deserves a really wide readership." Professor Clyde Chitty, Institute of Education, University of London, UK 
 "This book is slim in size but hefty in significance. It tells the story of a school driven by ambition, hope and the self-confidence that comes from a profound faith in the capacity of every child to be a passionate and engaged learner. This in the face of powerful and societally dominant messages that explicitly or more insidiously tell a different and more deterministic tale: that children (and schools) are fit and proper subjects for classification, measurement and management. And there's more - the careful scholarship on which this story is based prevents this book from being merely a description of what happens when a unique constellation of propitious circumstances meets a charismatic leader: this 'other way' is open to all who will take it - but it will demand the laying of solid and value-rich foundations, the exercising of autonomy for staff and pupils, the rethinking of relationships, a focus on learning (letting performance come as a secondary gift), and the taking of collective action. 
It's become a cliché to say of a book that it 'Should be read by every teacher (or parent, or whoever ...).' This one, and its predecessor 'Learning without Limits' merits that injunction." Barry Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education, Education Faculty, University of Cumbria, UK 
 "'Creating Learning without Limits' provides a welcome tonic that can help to offset the beleaguering effects of a performativity and standards agenda that reinforces the ability based practices so pervasive in schools today. Building on the compelling pedagogy first presented in 'Learning without Limits', this inspiring book shows how an alternative school improvement agenda can produce high academic attainment and enhanced capacity to learn for everybody. A classic for our time, it should be read by all who seek approaches to teaching and learning that are free from externally imposed views of ability and potential.” Professor Lani Florian, School of Education, University of Aberdeen, UK 
 "If you share the convictions of the authors: 'That human potential is not predictable, that children's futures are unknowable, and that education has the power to enhance the lives of all', read the book! You will however need to proceed with caution; it will make some of you reflect on what you do and why you are doing it. This book could be the catalyst for the educational change that we are all praying for." Julie Lilly, Head Teacher, UK
 This book tells the story of how one primary school community worked to build a learning environment that is inclusive, humane and enabling for everybody, a place free from the damaging effects of fixed ability thinking and practices. Drawing on compelling accounts of everyday life in the school, it describes how, in just a few years, the school (once in special measures) grew into a thriving community, with distinctive views of learning, curriculum and pedagogy, monitoring and accountability that found expression in every aspect of school life. 
 The work of the school community was guided by the findings of a previous project, 'Learning without Limits' (Hart, Dixon, Drummond and McIntyre 2004), an empirical study of the classroom practice of individual teachers who had rejected the concept of fixed ability. 'Creating Learning without Limits' explores what becomes possible when the same ideas and principles are used creatively to guide and inspire whole school improvement. This book is not simply a celebration of the success of the school; it engages with the struggles and difficulties encountered by the staff as they set about learning to reshape pedagogy and curriculum by reference to their shared values of inclusion, social justice and human educability. It gives a detailed analysis of how the headteacher harnessed the power of collective action. 
 The insights generated by this study have enduring relevance and applicability to people in other contexts - for staff groups craving for more equitable school improvement; for individual teachers wondering how best to foster children's learning capacity; for school leaders and teacher educators who find their values increasingly compromised.

Creating learning without limits

Politics & Social Sciences

Swann

Social Sciences

Open University Press

In recent years we have become obsessed with being "ready for 1992". Yet despite the hype, how many people understand what "1992 and all that" will actually entail? "The Single European Market and Beyond" offers a detailed account of both the practicalities involved and the principles behind them. It falls into four parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the subject and provides an overview. It examines the Single European Act (1986) - which set the 31st December 1992 deadline - in some detail. Dennis Swann argues that the 1986 Act is best understood in terms of three ideas: completing, deepening and widening the Community. Part II examines the completion of the market in terms of the 1986 Act while Part III is concerned with the deepening and widening of particular aspects of the Act. It focuses on issues such as European Monetary Union, the Social Charter, Environmental Policy and political union. Widening also takes account of the countries now considering or actively seeking full membership - including the Eastern European countries. Finally, in Part IV, readers are given a series of final thoughts on the three issues most likely to shape Europe's future. This book should be of interest to undergraduate students, lecturers and all those interested in European studies, economics, politics and international studies.

Single European Market & Beyond Cl

Business & Money

Economics

Other

Mania:New Research and Treatment (Clinical Insights)

Medical Books

Medicine

Cambridge University Press

"TO KISS EARTH GOOD-BYE is an unusual book. It is Swann's personal testament to his own psychic experiences or,as he prefers, to his experiences with the nonmaterial, but it is also a personal evaluation of the progress of man's mind in the last two-hundred years. At the conclusion, one is left to wonder if, in our preoccupation with progress, we have really progressed at all! Ingo Swann was born in 1933 in Colorado. He was trained as a biologist and worked for some years at the United Nations before shifting his attention and energy to painting and to parapsychology. He has achieved considerable success as an artist: Edgar Mitchell (the Apollo 14 Astronaut) has said of the painting that is reproduced on this jacket, "Ingo Swann portrays in AFT SHIP's VIEW OF SAGITTARIUS a perception of reality that is uniquely his own." In the field of parapsychology, his experiments at the American Society for Psychical Research, at the City College of New York, and at Stanford Research Institute, have been the most significant in recent years."*****From the Foreword by DR. Gertrude Schmeidler: "Ingo Swann is a remarkable man. He has extraordinarily strong psychic ability; he is thoughtful; he is fluent. Hearing him speak is a special experience, and this book offers a similar experience to readers......And here is the book he wrote. It is partly autobiography, it tells of his family background and early psychic experiences.....and of his later successes in the laboratory and outside.....Its major theme is one with which I heartily concur.....that psychic phenomena are natural events to be understood in the framework of science. His own words are, 'The path of understanding things psychic has led away from the usual occult, mystical, and even mythic sources.'

To Kiss Earth Goodbye

Literature & Fiction

Dutton

Experiments in General Chemistry, CHEM 1031-1041- Chem 1111-1112, 7th

Science & Math

Chemistry

Contemporary Publishing Company of Raleigh, Inc.

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