What If Everything You Knew about Education Was Wrong', Paperback

This is a book about teaching but it is not a manual on how to teach. It's a book about ideas but it is not ideological. It is a book about thinking and questioning and challenging. Much of what we believe about education is unexamined. In iconoclastic style, the author scours current thinking on education to expose bad ideas masquerading as common sense before presenting an alternative view on how we might think about teaching. The main thing Didau believes we're wrong about is the belief that we can "see" learning. Like many other beliefs in education this is so deeply embedded in the way we see the world we don't even think about it: it is a self-evident truth. Pretty much every lesson taught by every teacher in every school depends on the idea that we can see learning happen. The author suggests an alternative to the quick fix culture so prevalent in schools: making learning deliberately difficult.