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Beadle Phil

    Rules for Mavericks
    Dancing About Architecture
    The Book of Plenary
    Could Do Better!
    Bad Education
    How to Teach
    • 2020

      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.

      The Fascist Painting
    • 2017

      Rules for Mavericks

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.1(21)Add rating

      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).

      Rules for Mavericks
    • 2015

      Literacy

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Literacy is important. This book is about getting it right.

      Literacy
    • 2013
    • 2011

      Dancing About Architecture

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.7(42)Add rating

      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.

      Dancing About Architecture
    • 2011

      Bad Education

      • 188 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.2(12)Add rating

      A collection of the author's columns from the Guardian's Education section. It covers various aspects of British Education over the last decade.

      Bad Education
    • 2010

      How to Teach

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.2(159)Add rating

      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.

      How to Teach
    • 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.

      Could Do Better!