Cleverlands [electronic resource] : The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
Crehan, Lucy2016
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As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from 'top-performing' education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan's journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology and culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries.
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Crehan, Lucy, Editor
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[Place of publication not identified] : Unbound, 2016
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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Lucy Crehan is a teacher, education researcher, and freelance education consultant. She studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford, then spent a year working with autistic children before teaching in a secondary comprehensive school in southwest London. Upon completing her Masters degree, she travelled around the world to research global education systems. Using her research, she wrote a report for UNESCO on teacher career structures across the world. Cleverlands is her first book.
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9781783522750
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English
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2802930
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