Andrew Curran

From the front cover of this book I thought that this would be an enjoyable read. Curran managed to playfully talk about the evolution of the human brain and insert his own ideas about how we should approach learning both for ourselves and for others. I really enjoyed the light-hearted pictures inserted throughout the text and his writing style, though it was a little clunky at times. Really enjoyed and would recommend this little tome.

An approachable introduction to the working of the brain, part of a series of texts for educationalists. Curran's explanations tend to be clear and give enough information, without blinding the novice reader. However, it's a book that needs a good edit to polish some rather clunky segues, and to cut down on the non-jokes and irritating digressions. Some of the 'illustrations' could go too: the working drawings of parts of the brain are useful - and conjour the idea of 'live' teaching (it's show more easy to imagine the author drawing these on a whiteboard) - but the other cartoons are space-fillers at best, at worst plain lazy. Good - but there are other, better quality volumes available. show less