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Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Philosophy & theory of education

• Full title: School Blues
• Author: Daniel Pennac
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781906694876
• ISBN: 1906694877
• ID: 04383816
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Weight: 208 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. August 2011

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