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Beautiful failures

Beautiful failures
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ISBN 9780857989253
Name Clark, Lucy author.
Title Beautiful failures
Published North Sydney, NSW : An Ebury Press book, published by Penguin Random House Australia, 2016
Description 300 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes "How the quest for success is harming our kids"--Cover.
With note SOC.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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.
Target audience note General.
Language note In English.
Subjects Competition
Childhood needs
Attitudes
Attitude change
Anxiety
Dropout prevention
School systems
Student experience
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