The School: The Ups and Downs of One Year in the Classroom

Author(s): Brendan James Murray

BIOGRAPHY

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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General Fields

  • : 9781760982430
  • : Picador Australia
  • : Picador Australia
  • : 0.3
  • : January 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Brendan James Murray
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 416
  • : BGA