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  • Bodies of Learning

    How Embodiment Science Transforms Education

    Bodies of Learning is a bold reimagining of education through the lens of embodiment science. Claxton and Poel challenge outdated assumptions that separate mind and body, revealing the interconnectedness of the ‘bodymind’. Drawing on cutting-edge research in embodied cognition, this book offers a transformative vision for education that integrates heart, gut, brain, feeling and action into the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind

    How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

    by Guy Claxton ...
    "Backs up anecdotal studies of creativity with up-to-date Information about the latest research into brain function . . . a fascinating book." —Anthony Storr, author of Solitude: A Return to SelfIn these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity and paradox, and we've lost our appreciation for the value of "sleeping on it." We assume that the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intelligence in the Flesh

    Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks

    by Guy Claxton ...
    If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you’d better think again—or rather not “think” at all. In his provocative new book, Guy Claxton draws on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to reveal how our bodies—long dismissed as mere conveyances—actually constitute the core of our intelligent life. From the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Future of Teaching

    And the Myths That Hold It Back

    by Guy Claxton ...
    It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made, but teachers and school leaders are being held ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Wholly Human

    Western and Eastern Visions of the Self and its Perfection

    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1981, the subject matter of Wholly Human is integrated Man, the man whose functions and faculties work together in harmony, the man who is wholly human – aware and accepting of the disparities between who he thinks he is and who he really is.In the first part of this book the author looks at the different ways in which we lose sight of our wholeness, as well as therapies ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Educating Ruby

    what our children really need to learn

    With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need To Learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas. It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Powering Up Children

    The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching (The Learning Power series)

    Series Book 2 - The Learning Power series
    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.Foreword by Ron Berger.The LPA is a way of teaching which aims to develop all children as confident and capable learners ready, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Learning Power Approach

    Teaching learners to teach themselves (The Learning Power series)

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Series series The Learning Power series
    In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of learning. Foreword by Carol S. Dweck. Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge, and skills, but ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Educating Ruby

    what our children really need to learn

    With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need To Learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas. It is for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world and explains how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Ed Book

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Writing principally for teachers-in-training and for new teachers, Guy Claxton offers a fresh approach to what is often a stuffy and polemical area. New teachers today are being bombarded from all sides with advice, prescriptions and demands about what they ought to be, and about personal and professional standards they ought to attain. The person they are gets to feel more and more ignored, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Powering Up Children

    The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching (The Learning Power series)

    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.Foreword by Ron Berger.The LPA is a way of teaching which aims to develop all children as confident and capable learners ready, ... Read more

    $21.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Learning Power Approach

    Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Series series Corwin Teaching Essentials
    Become mind-fit for life!Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge and skills, but also positive learning attitudes and habits of mind. Guy Claxton’s The Learning Power Approach will help teachers understand how ‘every lesson, every day’ shapes the way students see themselves as learners. This is the beauty of the Learning Power Approach: it is something all ... Read more

    $33.99 USD