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Assessment and the Arts
The anti-Ken Robinson Robinson talks about cognitive dualism, the need for the subjective and the problems that creates for schools in a high stakes assessment and accountability system. If the… Read more
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George Monbiot on Factory Schools and the Future of Education
On his website George Monbiot writes that: While you can be definitively wrong, you cannot be definitely right. The best anyone can do is constantly to review the evidence and… Read more
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Katie Hopkins, Denial, and Teaching ‘Critical Thinking’
AQA state that: A-level Government and Politics enables students to develop their critical thinking skills and enhance their ability to interpret, evaluate and comment on the nature of politics. For… Read more
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You’re Not Doing Growth Mindset Properly
Brain Gym and Learning Styles came and went, well, the hope is they’ve gone. Fads and gimmicks come and go, often on the basis of some research or other. When this… Read more
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Confine Post-truth Education into the Dustbin of History
Two arguments have been prevalent in education discourse for a number of years: one, that the content of the curriculum is just a reflection of power relations and two, that all truth is relative.… Read more
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Don’t Educate the Working Class
Not all working-class children want to be middle or upper class. says Garth Stahl, the author of Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration… emphasising that education is about changing people and not everyone… Read more
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Discovery Learning and the Art of Reading
Mortimer J Adler’s and Charles Van Doren’s How to Read a Book sets out to assist readers who want to read well. Our subject, then, is the art of reading… Read more
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Teachers Should Pass Knowledge On
To avoid misunderstanding: it seems to me that conservatism, in the sense of conservation, is of the essence of the educational activity Hannah Arendt According to the sleeve notes of… Read more
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On Milo and Free Speech in Schools
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either… Read more
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Arts Education has a “Low Impact”
If you click on the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) ‘Teaching and Learning Toolkit’ webpage the first thing you come across is: click on this and you are informed that: What… Read more
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