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Bring Back Rhetoric!
Forget 21st Century Skills! “What we need is not new, but perennial. We need an art that integrates body and soul and recognises enduring and underlying principles, which have sustained… Read more
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How Traditional is the Teaching and Learning in Harris Academies?
Michael Gove has divulged the name of his hero: “Lord Harris of Peckham”. Harris is a ‘Conservative millionaire who is saving schools’. In the piece Gove claims that Harris Academies… Read more
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Trivium Schools Update September 2014
It is very exciting when a teacher approaches me and tells me about the work they are doing to implement some of the ideas from my book Trivium 21c into… Read more
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On Eudaimonia: Simply Outstanding Is Not The Best
I received an email last week accepting an invitation I had sent to a teacher (for the sake of this blog let’s call him Mr Micawber) asking him to talk at… Read more
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Engaging With a Humane Education
Here is the text of a talk I delivered at the ‘NTEN-ResearchED-York Conference’ on Saturday 4th May 2014. The beginning of the talk draws heavily on the wonderful Hitchiker’s Guide… Read more
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It Was the Worst of Times; It was the Best of Times: Are Our Schools and Kids Awful?
In yesterday’s Daily Mail they ran the following headline: “The worst behaved pupils in the world? You’d better believe it: As a study says schools are even more anarchic than… Read more
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To have done with the Judgement of Ofsted
In 1947 The mad French Surrealist Antonin Artaud produced a radio play called ‘To Have Done With the Judgement of God’. It involved some grunts, screams, cries and, literally, a… Read more
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Will drama turn to crisis? On The New Arts GCSEs and A Levels
The Government’s statement on the new arts GCSEs and A Levels is to be welcomed. It states that: “Students will be able to access high-quality, rigorous GCSEs…” and that: “These new A… Read more
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The 51 year Lesson Plan
It takes a lifetime to plan, not five minutes. Wherever you plan your lesson, whether it’s in your head, on paper, or online, a lesson plan is a struggle, a… Read more
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Into The Agora With Trivium 21c
Last year I ventured into the Agora, clutching a newly minted book and some ideas to share. I was terrified that I would be laughed at, ridiculed, dismissed or ignored.… Read more
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