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Teaching Poetry: Unpopular Problems

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It’s National Poetry Day. We wonder which poems are being recited in schools throughout the land today. Coleridge? Byron? Auden? Or something more contemporary. We also wonder whether children and young people have been asked about their views on poetry. … Continue reading

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Remember Gove?

8×7=56. I know. Just as I also know that 2+2 doesn’t always add up to 4, but that has come about from hard experience not from parrot fashion learning. I suppose there is some bright spark somewhere in academia who … Continue reading

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Veni Vidi Vici – The Dawn of the Gove Curriculum

Hardly the dawn of the Age of Aquarius is it, but this week we shall finally see what the current government, or rather Mr Gove, wants our children to study in this bright new 21st century. Two “leaks” so far … Continue reading

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After the Riots: Part Three – Forever Young, with Head, Hands and Heart

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Roger Lloyd Pack was talking about his Legacy Tunes on Radio Four. His mother listened to Mozart. Roger listened to Bob Dylan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4 Roger described Bob Dylan as his “mentor, friend and spiritual companion”. If anyone described me as a … Continue reading

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