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.
If you make any stand against power, then power will stand against and on you. And it will do so with centuries of experience and techniques in how to do so effectively: you will be painted as barbaric, dismissed as stupid and insane, be told to know your place. Most of all, you will be termed maverick.
Phil Beadle has been described as 'the scourge of education policy makers' and also as 'a prolific writer of articles challenging the status quo in education.'
Bad Education is an anthology of some of his best writings from his column, 'On Teaching, ' published in the Education Guardian Magazine in the UK. Written in his trademark simple, luminous, and down-to-earth style, this collection is a wry look at more or less every element of educatio...
Dancing about Architecture: The Little Book of Creativity is a compendium of outrageous ideas: ideas about how to take more risks, and about how to go about coming up with better ideas.
This 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 failures.
Fluent, accessible and at times laugh out loud hilarious, How to Teach is the ultimate, (and ultimately irreverent) look at what you should be doing in your classroom if you want to be the best teacher you can possibly be. Phil Beadle, star of UK Channel 4's Unteachables and Can't Read Can't Write, and former Secondary School Teacher of the Year and Guardian Education Columnist, outlines everything a newly qualified teacher needs to know in or...
