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Cleverlands

The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers

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Cleverlands

By: Lucy Crehan
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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.

©2016, 2019 United Authors Publishing Ltd (P)2021 Lucy Crehan
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"Lucy Crehan’s book is refreshingly fair-minded and makes a case that there is a lot to learn about how other countries learn." (Books of the Year - Economist)

"Audacious and important.... Cleverlands is not just for specialists: it's a wry and accessible narrative of personal enterprise." (Prospect)

"Mind-expanding and topical...completely fascinating. As a serving primary school governor, I read it avidly, and it made me dream of an education system that is designed by thoughtful, experienced and caring teachers." (Bookseller)

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A must-read for educators

I’m a teacher in the UK( 10 years into my career). One of the many issues with the UK education system is that teachers lack the time to do research on other education systems, particularly one that produce excellent and equitable outcomes. Handily, Crehan’s book offers the reader a sweeping tour of high-performing systems whose outcomes are down to a range of factors the author carefully explores. A genuinely fascinating read.

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Lucy’s discussions about curricula

A startling foray into different countries’ education systems and how their cultures impact on pupils’ learning

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Just could not finish this book.

I know I am a hard critic to satisfy as I have been working globally in education for in excess of 30 years, but I wish educationalists would stop measuring success in their own bubble based upon a system originally constructed for another era. When I was working with aboriginals in northern Queensland a youth once asked me why he was measured against what he can't do and why he could not be measured against what he could do, like his ancestors who took on roles based on such skills in the tribe, shoe maker, story teller etc etc, Education needs to examine todays needs and what leads to happiness in work and life and measure its success against these measures, not against a set of artificial standards that often have little relevance once the learner enters the world of life, work, marriage etc and the stresses they face during their lifetimes. I am guilty myself as I helped write National Curricula for many countries, my only excuse being that at the time I was trapped in the same "education" bubble! So this book, whilst well intentioned was just too much of a self fulfilling loop for me. Others may differ and that is how it should be.

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