The Fascist Painting is a serious, rich and deeply intelligent piece of work that will radically alter the way we view culture in schools and will be a key text for anyone designing a curriculum.
Beadle Phil Book order






- 2020
- 2017
Rules for Mavericks
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Rules for Mavericks is a guidebook to leading a creative life, to being a renaissance dilettante, to infesting your art form with other art forms, to taking a stand against mediocrity, to rejecting bloodless orthodoxies, to embracing your own pretension and, most of all, to dealing with your failure(s).
- 2015
Literacy
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Literacy is important. This book is about getting it right.
- 2013
The Book of Plenary
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The only book full of ideas for lesson plenaries you'll ever need.
- 2011
Dancing About Architecture
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A compendium of ideas about how to take risks, and about how to go about coming up with better ideas; ideas about how to plan experiences that leave people who are in the same room as those ideas awestruck; and, ideas to help you avoid the textbook, the worksheet the barely stifled yawn.
- 2011
Bad Education
- 188 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A collection of the author's columns from the Guardian's Education section. It covers various aspects of British Education over the last decade.
- 2010
How to Teach
- 220 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Outlines what a newly qualified teacher needs to know in order to be an immediate success in the classroom. The book includes a substantial section on every new teacher's biggest concern: behaviour management, as well as giving tips on: various teaching methods; lesson planning; assessment; and ways of organising the classroom.
- 2008
Could Do Better!
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Phil Beadle is a former rock musician, the winner of the Secondary Teacher of the Year Award 2005, and the inspirational teacher who wowed the nation with his unorthodox teaching methods in Channel 4 series THE UNTEACHABLES.