Good Ideas, Michael Rosen
Good Ideas, Michael Rosen
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Good Ideas
How to Be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher

Author: Michael Rosen

Narrator: Michael Rosen

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 09/18/2014

Synopsis

We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught often excludes all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture - anything from cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model making, from collecting leaves to playing 'Who am I?'. The great thing is that you really can use everything around you to learn more.

Learning should be much more fun and former children's laureate, million-selling author, broadcaster, father of five and all-round national treasure, Michael Rosen wants to show you how. Forget lists, passing tests and ticking boxes, the world outside the classroom can't be contained within the limits of any kind of curriculum - and it's all the better for it.

Long car journeys, poems about farting, cake baking, even shouting at the TV can teach lessons that will last a lifetime. Packed with enough practical tips, stories and games to inspire a legion of anxious parents and bored children, Good Ideas shows that the best kind of education really does start at home.

(P)2014 John Murray Press

About Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is a former Children's Laureate and the bestselling author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt (which won the Smarties Best Book of the Year Award) and many other books. He has also presented Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 since 1998. He has a Phd in Education, been awarded five extra honorary doctorates by various universities and made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French government. In 2013 he became Professor of Education Studies at Goldsmiths. Find out more on Michael's website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam

I remember as a child reading Michael Rosen books. I even believe he may have visited my school. This books takes my love of Rosen to a new level. His common sense approach in this book is unique. He clearly shows how you can make a real difference in a child's life if your lucky enough to have them......more

Goodreads review by Jeni

I expected more - perhaps more theory, more thought, maybe more science. Was disappointed that it was mostly a list of different places or activities which had potential for learning and questioning, with a few examples of questions or personal anecdotes thrown in. Very samey and for me, very superf......more

Goodreads review by Helen

I know it's had a lot of criticism for being a big book of obviousness, but actually I thought it cheerful, engaging and accessible, and sort of reassuring in what I'm doing, even though really I do know it by now. I might even say "inspiring". And I know some people hated the anecdotes but I liked......more

Goodreads review by Dancall

A book all about how to make learning fun for kids, with lots of practical examples, illustrative stories, and sensible advice. I really loved this, and while much of it is common sense, it reminded me of why I love learning. For example, he talks about kids developing a love of browsing, being abl......more

Quotes

'Why curiosity is the key to life . . . inspiring and entertaining and thrilling. Michael Rosen, poet, broadcaster and former children's laureate, who is so genuinely passionate, so enthusiastic, so in touch with what it is like to be a child . . . has written a book about how to educate kids at home. It's playful and eclectic . . . about telling stories and collecting stones, messing about with the wires in old plugs and recounting Greek myths. GUARDIAN

A spirit of enquiry makes learning child's play . . . Nothing ever seems to have come over as boring to Rosen as he roams cheerfully over his childhood memories . . . Science experiments in the bath, singing rounds, days out, quizzes and puzzles are all recruited as practical ways of discovering more about the ideas, knowledge and culture surrounding us but often simply taken for granted. Rosen includes so many ideas for making family life a springboard for further exploration [that] it would be hard for an adult to come away from this engaging study without at least one very good idea for what to do next when there seems nothing else to do INDEPENDENT

A truly wonderful book . . . engaging, thoughtful and very, very practical Early Years Educator

Offers thought provoking advice to parents in how to broaden the minds of their brood Press Association

My favourite book on parenthood . . . A politics that neither takes childhood and parenting seriously nor can have a laugh in the process deserves to inspire nothing much more than apathy and antipathy. Michael Rosen is the polar opposite to such twin barbs, he cares about children, deeply and is richly amusing . . . extraordinarily good Philosophy Football

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