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Heard on Radio 4’s Start The Week this week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tcnk A very interesting thought to begin this or indeed any week! One that teachers might put to their students. What are the most important problems currently affecting our daily lives? … Continue reading
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Of course we should be concerned about individuals who can be manipulated into carrying out acts of terrorism and mass murder. We should be equally concerned about individuals who need NO manipulation – who act from their own vile and … Continue reading
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Radio 4’s Book of the Week this week is Negroland by Margo Jefferson. Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 to a successful black, middle-class couple in Chicago. Her memoir looks back on her childhood and the black bourgeois upbringing that … Continue reading
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Recently we blogged about the latest Pixar movie, Inside Out, and concluded, Emotions “squabbling amongst themselves” might be cartoonish and entertaining but ultimately this movie sheds little light on a complex subject. No doubt the movie will be popular. Let’s … Continue reading
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At this halfway point in the UK’s general election campaign we could maybe take stock and consider the bigger picture, particularly with regard to education and our values as a society. “We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction … Continue reading
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Of the six intelligences we describe in our 3D model, the one that involves no thought and no logic is the one that’s the least considered and sometimes the hardest to comprehend. We’re talking here about instinctual intelligence – a … Continue reading
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Our attention this Easter has been on the General Election and also on those parts of the world where people are terrorising, killing, maiming and abusing one another for no other reason than their membership a particular religion or religious … Continue reading
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It’s a pleasure to be working again with Professor Yoko Yamasaki at Mukogawa University. The focus of our current collaboration (on the history of education and on contemporary issues in education) is the Hadow Report of 1931, and its impact … Continue reading
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Sooner or later Bob Dylan will pass away and millions of our fellow citizens will ask, “Who was Bob Dylan?” The media will be full of obituaries, photographs, interviews and documentaries and the vast majority of us will ask, “What’s … Continue reading
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The situation might be amusing if it wasn’t so ridiculous and tragic. First we had the Blair government making it possible for separatist groups to set up more and more “faith” schools with their own particular ‘take’ on life, the … Continue reading
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