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a rigid concept of teaching where discipline in the classroom seems more important than the overriding goal of the curriculum In a recent publication in the Curriculum Journal (Fredholm,...
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I recently conducted a study on the reported “national scandal” of teachers leaving the profession. For example, 40% of teachers are found to leave within their first five years (Wilshaw,...
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Schools are bombarded with products and courses that claim to be informed by research in Neuroscience and/or Digital Technology. Despite warnings from the OECD, the Royal Society (UK), the...
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Everything changes. Nothing could be more true; nothing could be more relevant to the field of education today. And yet whilst the educational landscape seems to change by the attosecond, never...
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One of the many novel phenomena associated with the rise of social media is the nationwide news story that is driven by a small personal event. Increasingly, members of the public will share...
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In Sweden, international trends are challenging traditional conceptions about teaching practices. On the one hand, Swedish schools are regulated through a system of accountability, which leads to...
Continue reading blog postHigh quality school-based mentoring was singled out for needing 'much greater status and recognition' in the Carter Review of initial teacher education in England, and development of national...
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Dorothy Heathcote died in October 2011 at the age of 85. Although an academic for most of her life, first at Durham and then at Newcastle, Heathcote continued to teach in classrooms almost up...
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So farewell, Nicky Morgan and Michael Gove. Welcome Justine Greening, our third Conservative English Secretary of State for Education since 2010. This is beginning to look a bit like the musical...
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If there’s one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it’s the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ are exactly the...
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When I told teaching colleagues I was thinking about ‘manipulatives’, there was a sense we all knew what this meant: the resources in our maths cupboard. This seems at odds with what has been...
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Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
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