Monkey-Proof Box - Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence Lear JonathanPaperback / softback

Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we're told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.A group of monkeys. The monkeys excitedly poke at the box with rocks ... A box full of nuts. A lever. A chute.

Meanwhile, one monkey sits to the side, observing. nothing happens. Then, when the others wander off, he gets up and - with a curious push of his palm - presses the lever and the nuts tumble down the chute Not believing his luck, he eats the nuts, presses the lever again and is rewarded with yet more nuts.

He's cracked the challenge of the monkey-proof box.In their early years, children experience a world full of monkey-proof boxes - it's