Ian Gilbert takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the theories of teaching. On the way the author highlights seven key factors that affect motivation and offers a range of strategies to help teachers implement and use them at the chalk face.

A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks. This book includes the thunks which cover areas of human existence including truth, justice, reality, beliefs, the natural world, the human condition, art, beauty, existence, right and wrong, good and bad, life and death, war, religion, love, and friendship.

Does 'not going fishing' count as a hobby? Answering this question, 'The Book of Thunks' also addresses the other issues that stretch your brain - as well as the ones that annoy your friends

Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? is just one of the challenging, controversial and thought-provoking questions Ian Gilbert poses in this urgent and invigorating book.

Questioning the unquestionable, this fully updated new edition will make you re-consider everything you thought you knew about teaching and learning, such as:

- Are you simply preparing the next generation of unemployed accountants?
- What do you do for the 'sweetcorn kids' who come out of the education system in pretty much the same state as when they went in?
- What's the real point...