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Pertinent points on classroom practice from a teacher transformed
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
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RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Living Contradiction: A Teacher's Examination of Tension and Disruption in Schools, in Classrooms and in Self
by Sean Warren and Stephen Bigger
(Crown House Publishing, £18.99)
THIS extraordinary book about education poses an essential question to teachers. “Is it possible to build good, positive relationships with pupils without sacrificing order and discipline?”
Central to that question, in a profoundly honest and lucid narrative, is the classroom odyssey of one of its authors, Sean Warren.
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