Expansive Education
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This book offers a powerful manifesto for schools to articulate a different vision of education that looks beyond exam success.
Guy Claxton Books
Guy Claxton explores the nature of intelligence and learning, investigating how conscious effort can be less crucial than intuitive or subconscious processes. He examines how thinking less can paradoxically lead to increased intellectual capacity. His work delves into the development of deeper, more automated thought processes that enable more effective problem-solving. Claxton's approach highlights the significance of the intuitive and subconscious elements of cognition.
Teaching Creative Thinking
- 216 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically defines and demystifies the essence of creative thinking, and offers action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners.
Powering Up Children
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
In Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching, Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom.
A History of the English Language in 100 Places
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A History of the English Language in 100 Places is a joyous ride through time, where readers can criss-cross the British Isles and the world at large to land in a hundred contrasting places and light on a hundred wonderful topics that bring the extraordinary story of the English language alive.
New Kinds of Smart presents the most important of these changes to practising teachers and educators, and invites them to think about their implications for school.
The Learning Power Approach
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The purpose of this book is provide guidance for how to construct the incubator of normal lessons so that thoughtful minds are naturally grown.
Powering Up Students
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The Learning Power Approach (LPA) is a pedagogical formula which aims to develop all students as confident and capable learners - ready, willing, and able to choose, design, research, pursue, troubleshoot, and evaluate learning for themselves, alone and with others, in school and out.
Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
An international panel of distinguished experts explores the balance between creativity and wise action, and calls for educators to nurture wise creativity in their students.
What's the Point of School?
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, this book proves that education's key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly- changing, dynamic world.
In this exceptional book, Guy Claxton finally frees the unconscious from its narrow psychoanalytic confines and explores its evolution from the Sun God myths of Ancient Eygpt to the insights of 21st century neuroscience.