The School: The Ups and Downs of One Year in the Classroom
Author(s): Brendan James Murray
A portrait of one teacher and his class as they journey through the ups and downs of a school year. Brendan James Murray has been a secondary school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through his classes - troubled, brilliant, funny, passionate, struggling: every single one brings unique qualities or circumstances into school with them, every day.In this astonishing powerful portrait of a single school year, Brendan James Murray shows the ups and downs of school for teachers and students: the dedication of colleagues, the bureaucracy of the curriculum, the passion and fire he tries to light in his students, and their responses, hilarious, heartbreaking and true. A magnificent clarion call for the art of teaching, a must-read for any parent, The School is a heartfelt, behind-the-scenes picture of modern education, and a timeless story of a teacher and their class.
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- : Picador Australia
- : Picador Australia
- : 0.3
- : 01 January 2021
- : {"length"=>["23.3"], "width"=>["15.4"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Brendan James Murray
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 416