{"title":"Books by Katharine Birbalsingh","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781912906215","title":"Michaela: The Power of Culture","description":"Michaela Community School in Brent, London is one of the most talked-about schools in the UK. In this follow-up to the best-selling book Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Teachers, their teachers further explain how their relentlessly high expectations are helping young people to get great results and be successful.Since opening in 2014, Michaela Community School has blazed a trail and defied many of the received notions about what works best in schools. In Michaela: The Battle For Western Education, staff explore some of the things they have learned since the publication of the original book and further develop the ideology that lies beyond the headlines and social media arguments.Chapters include: Don't be squeamish about scripture - why we teach religion at Michaela; Relationships \u0026amp; systems; National Citizenship and Identity; Teaching National History; Digital Detox; Authority; Original Sin \u0026amp; Christian beliefs at Michaela; Telling kids the truth\/teaching personal responsibility; Assessment at Michaela; Loving the difficult kids; The baby in the progressive bath water; The culture of feedback at Michaela; Why is teaching gratitude important?; Parenting the Michaela way","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309212905845,"sku":"9781912906215","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912906215_2a8ef2a0-f4ff-4a26-9934-23ad24aac210.jpg?v=1786031044"},{"product_id":"diversity-is-not-our-strength","title":"Diversity is not Our Strength","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I recommend it strongly, especially to those minded to consider its author guilty until proven innocent, precisely because it will surprise them. Wherever you stand on the culture wars - what we used to just call 'politics' - Birbalsingh is a thinker and practitioner you have to reckon with . . . I suggest all those who think they know her, read this book . . . and think again' \u003cb\u003eAmol Rajan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Some will undoubtedly dismiss this brilliant book as another culture-war polemic, but that would miss what is genuinely valuable here. Birbalsingh is remarkably even-handed about where radicalisation comes from, critiquing the misogyny in young male online spaces as well as illiberalism on the identitarian left. A refreshing departure from orthodoxy' \u003cb\u003eJulie Bindel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Uniquely, she combines a deftness of touch with tremendous clarity of thought, plotting a sound course between the temptations of feel-good virtue-signalling liberalism and reactionary overcorrection. A must-read for every thinking person in Britain' \u003cb\u003eKonstantin Kisin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Children pay the price for ideas that make adults feel virtuous. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom, Katharine Birbalsingh delivers a powerful account of how lowered expectations and luxury beliefs betray the very people educators promise to help. An urgent book about what we owe the next generation' \u003cb\u003eRob Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRace and community relations are getting worse. The online world and the education system continue to push identity politics. Multiculturalism is on the brink.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The political left demonises as fascist all expression of concerns that liberal multiculturalism is creating tensions. In response, some on the right are moving towards more extreme and reactionary positions, with some opposing a multicultural society altogether. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We're more divided than ever. But despair is not an option. We need to chart a realistic way forward and bind people together. That is the purpose of this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Grounded in the author's experience of working at the forefront of the British education system, this book argues that many of the country's current political issues are grounded in childhood and schools. Birbalsingh asserts that duties to others and to the country should speak louder than our tribal rights - and shows us how change can begin within ordinary families and ordinary schools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Britain is not just somewhere we happen to live, it is a home we inherit, shape and ultimately pass on - and all of us can play a part in its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499271266677,"sku":"9780349023021","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349023021.jpg?v=1790607871"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-katharine-birbalsingh.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}