Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Education
Evidence Based Teaching A Practical Approach
Presents a coherent, evidence based view of teaching and learning and presents some radical new methods that are known to greatly improve achievement.
Geoff Petty, Nelson Thornes, 21 August 2006
Teach science for science's sake
Replacing physics, chemistry and biology with lessons in 'scientific literacy' will make children more wary of science in general.
David Perks, spiked, 15 August 2006
Replacing physics, chemistry and biology with lessons in 'scientific literacy' will make children more wary of science in general.
David Perks, spiked, 15 August 2006
The state is a pretty rotten parent
Before the state goes any further in its attempt to make the rest of us better parents, maybe it should take a look at what is going on in its own back yard
Fiona Millar, Guardian, 11 July 2006
Before the state goes any further in its attempt to make the rest of us better parents, maybe it should take a look at what is going on in its own back yard
Fiona Millar, Guardian, 11 July 2006
The ‘Hitlerisation’ of history teaching
The problem with the teaching of the past today is that it makes universalism history.
Neil Davenport, spiked, 4 June 2006
The problem with the teaching of the past today is that it makes universalism history.
Neil Davenport, spiked, 4 June 2006
Developing Citizens: A Comprehensive Introduction to Effective Citizenship Education in the Secondary School
A collection of kep papers assessing the need to establish Citizenship as a National Curriculum subject
Tony Breslin and Barry Dufour (eds), Hodder Education, 2005
Richer learning, poetic thinking and musical understanding
For music teachers, is the qualitative nature of musical experience incompatible with the quantitative measurements of skill attainment?
John Finney, NAME Magazine, 31 December 2005
For music teachers, is the qualitative nature of musical experience incompatible with the quantitative measurements of skill attainment?
John Finney, NAME Magazine, 31 December 2005
Do children need 'learning to learn'?
The promotion of learning styles over knowledge is a recipe for ignorance.
Toby Marshall, spiked, 25 October 2005
The promotion of learning styles over knowledge is a recipe for ignorance.
Toby Marshall, spiked, 25 October 2005
Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities
'Increasingly students are being asked to pay for the costs of the regulation of higher education rather than education itself. Access to Higher Education has become more widely available: the implications of that change are the concern of this book.'
Mary Evans, Continuum, 22 September 2005
Learning behaviour
The Report of The Practitioners’ Group on School Behaviour and Discipline
Sir Alan Steer, Department for Education, 2005
The Report of The Practitioners’ Group on School Behaviour and Discipline
Sir Alan Steer, Department for Education, 2005