Road School - Learning Through Exploration and Experience

Learning through exploration and experience. This is the story of Sue Cowley's family's adventures as she and her partner took their children out of school to teach them on the road.

About the author

Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter and teacher trainer, and the author of more than 25 books on education, including How to Survive your First Year in Teaching. Her international bestseller, Getting the Buggers to Behave, is a fixture on university lists, and has been translated into ten different languages. After training as an early years teacher, Sue taught English and drama in secondary schools in the UK and overseas, and she also worked as a supply teacher. She now spends her time writing educational books and articles and is a columnist for Teach Nursery, Teach Primary and Nursery World magazines. Sue works internationally as a teacher trainer, as well as volunteering in primary classrooms and helping to run her local preschool.

Summary

Frustrated by a regime of statutory testing, and keen for a midlife adventure, Sue Cowley and her partner decided to step out of the system, and set off on the educational adventure of a lifetime with their children.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Cowley, Cowley Sue
• Publisher: Crown House Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781785831140
• ISBN: 978-1-78583-114-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Memoirs, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Travel writing, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs