A01=James Handscombe
Author_James Handscombe
books for school leaders
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education policy
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professional development
school culture
school curriculum
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teaching books for teachers
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Product details
- ISBN 9781036013479
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 144 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Hachette Learning
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Curiosity is a superpower: the more curious you are, the more questions you ask, the more answers you get, the more you know, and the more that further stimulates curiosity. The pay-off is both the knowledge that is acquired(and knowledge, of course, is power) - and that virtuous circle. Unfortunately, schools, qualifications and curricula are not always set up to encourage curiosity (and there are ways in which they actually discourage it). The book covers some of the challenges encountered in trying to teach curiosity together with outlining a course that the author has designed and used to kick start that cycle of questioning.
James Handscombe was educated at Silverdale School in Sheffield followed by maths degrees from Oxford and Harvard. Since emerging, blinking, from his own education he has been a (mostly) secondary (mostly) mathematics teacher in South Wales, Australia and London. Since 2014 he has been the founding principal of Harris Westminster Sixth form and since 2022 the Executive Principal of a sister school in Clapham.
