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 John Blanchard grew up in southwest London, UK. While at school and university he had temporary jobs in London, Bremen and Frankfurt, in a chandlery, the Royal Mail, an electric hammer factory, a department store, a coffee factory and teaching English. Then, as a school teacher, he focused on how language can be used to help people teach and learn better. He worked with colleagues in higher education, and continued doing so as an education consultant. Along the way he has learned from those he has met in conversation, through reading, viewing visual media and, perhaps most powerfully, by studying and working together.

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Do you want us to live better than we do now?Do you want to help make a better future for generations to come?If your answer is yes to both questions, this book is for you.What can we do to live more convivially and sustainably?          You’ll find here questions, anecdotes, references to films, radio, internet media, literature, and research from a range of academic disciplines and areas of activity. This is about how we lead our daily lives at play, study, and work. It is about learning, resilience, trust, equality, decision-making, cooperation, and leadership.

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Game Changing

 We humans can’t help imagining, inferring, predicting, simulating and innovating. We have evolved to produce ‘multiple models of reality’ for ourselves. These cognitive moves encompass what is no- ........

Drawing Together

We learn to communicate and cooperate when we accept we can’t do it all on our own. When we share our difficulties and disappointments, celebrate our progress and help one another plan next ste ........

Being Ready To Care and Act

One balmy summer’s evening in the late 1980s, I was on my way from the Vaudeville Theatre in London to catch a train, walking down Villiers Street, up steps and across Hungerford Bridge. About ........

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