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Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
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Notes on Readings
Notes taken on various readings
The Brilliance of Their Minds
This documentary has a most serious intent. Too often in the past education reform has been more concerned with addressing the obvious symptoms of a problem, rather than addressing the cause of the problem itself. Now in the early 21st century the present arrangements are so overlaid by layer upon layer of ‘quick fix’ solutions […]
The three-legged stool
Appreciating that home, school and community are each integral parts of a balanced education
Towards a totalitarian education system in England
An authoritative overview of the political changes imposed on English education in the last 30 years
Why did we let it happen?
Thoughts on reading “Towards a Totalitarian Education System in England” by Sir Peter Newsam.
School and Curriculum or Learning and Humanity?
To embrace humanity is to embrace life. To talk about life we have to first agree that life is something we want to live.
Deschooling our Humanity
Everywhere not only education but also society as a whole needs “deschooling.”
No Small Matter
The clearest and most succinct explanation of the dilemma facing British society and the possible role of education in providing a solution
Get More, Want More or how to think our way out of a bad end.
A review of Spencer Wells, ‘Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilisation’
Battling for the Soul of Education
A review of Diane Ravitch, ‘The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How testing and choice are undermining education’.
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