Beautiful failures / Lucy Clark.
Publication details: North Sydney, NSW : An Ebury Press book, published by Penguin Random House Australia, 2016.Description: 300 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780857989253 :
- Educational objectives
- Academic achievement
- Competition
- Attitudes
- Attitude change
- Childhood needs
- Anxiety
- Dropout prevention
- Success
- Educational sociology
- Expectation
- School systems
- Student experience
- Underachievement -- Cross-cultural studies
- Underachievement
- Personal narratives
- Educational sociology
- School failure
- Academic achievement
- Dropout behavior, Prediction of
- Underachievement
- School environment
- Stress in children
- Academic achievement
- Dropout behavior, Prediction of
- Educational sociology
- School environment
- School failure
- Stress in children
- Underachievement
- Australia
- Australian
- 370.115 23
- LB1088 .C53 2016
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 370.115 CLA | Available | 065070 |
"How the quest for success is harming our kids"--Cover.
SOC.
Includes bibliographical references.
I want to tell you a story about my daughter, my beautiful failure. Every day of her high school life was a struggle. She woke up in the morning and the thought of going to school was like an enormous mountain to climb. 'Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years,' well-meaning adults told her, but I knew for my daughter, and for many kids who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this was dead wrong. When Lucy Clark's daughter graduated from school a 'failure', she started asking questions about the way we measure success. Why is there so much pressure on kids today? Where does it come from? Most importantly, as we seem to be in the grip of an epidemic of anxiety, how can we reduce that pressure? Beautiful Failures explores, through personal experience and journalistic investigation, a broken education system that fails too many kids and puts terrible pressure on all kids, including those who 'succeed'. It challenges accepted wisdoms about schooling, calls on parents to examine their own expectations, and questions the purpose of education, and indeed the purpose of childhood. --Back cover.
In English.