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  • Is a Classroom a Room for Class?

    British society is riven by class prejudice, education has done its best to ensure these prejudices are retained. Whether it be the public schools for the upper classes and the… Read more

  • Should You Stop Teaching The Curriculum?

    Increasingly, digital access is freeing teaching and learning from the constraints of prescribed curricular content.  Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy There’s an old trope that goes round and round in… Read more

  • A Few Lines for the SATS strike…

    The job of the conservative is to conserve the tradition, the job of the progressive is to challenge the tradition, shake it up and, maybe, break it. Imagine a society… Read more

  • Are Schools Exam Factories?

    Are schools exam factories? Take a look at a picture of a contemporary factory production line, how does the analogy pan out? Are the robots teachers? The products, children? The… Read more

  • Shakespeare’s Schooling

    Shakespeare’s Trivium, ‘The whining schoolboy …creeping like snail unwillingly to school’ It is not too hard to see Shakespeare in the schoolboy creeping snail-like to school – but thank goodness… Read more

  • Schools, Business and ‘Providing Intelligence’

    As April is the cruelest month I take a jaunt down by the river and see how things are progressing, so much building is going on, people moving in, putting… Read more

  • Drama Teaching, Socialisation and Indoctrination.

    My whole view on the progressive vs traditional debate in education was formed during the late 80’s and early 90’s as a beginning teacher of drama. I would argue that… Read more

  • Progressive Education, Shared Values, Play and Dirt…

    Sir Ken Robinson’s award-winning work on creativity in education makes him a natural advocate for our movement. His belief that outdoor play and its benefits are “vital for education” and… Read more

  • The Importance of Teaching ‘High Culture’

    “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” Gangsta’s Paradise: Coolio “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” Psalms 23:4 King James’ Version The… Read more

  • A ‘British Value’ Worth Teaching

    I have argued against the idea of teaching ‘British Values’ on a few occasions but the NUT might make me reevaluate my position. If, for example, we made one of… Read more

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