Trivium 21c ltd.

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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 secondary modern for the children of the working class, ‘I know my place’ has resounded down the years through folklore and education policy. Comprehensive education 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 which it is said: “Some teachers taught the curriculum today. Other teachers taught students today. And there’s a big difference.” I love binaries, they help 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 that was deeply conservative, it would stagnate, change would not happen, the same rituals and ways of seeing and being would be passed on and 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 outcome, the exam? If a car factory makes cars, an exam factory makes exams, Pearson? Well, no, the child must be the outcome, but not any colour 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 he didn’t play truant. The education he received at Stratford Grammar School is reflected in his plays. The aim of the school would have been 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 plant pots on their balconies, and a bike on the nineteenth floor. Down on Greenwich Reach potential purchasers are promised property that combines: “…brilliant architecture, Read more