Battle of Ideas | Reading for Battle

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

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

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

Intelligent design and educational stupidity
David Perks, spiked, 13 March 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

Do children need 'learning to learn'?
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

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The IPCC: can we trust the evidence?

"The rules of the game at The Battle of Ideas makes beating about the bush impossible. When you are given 5 minutes to make your point, you either say something essential, or you reveal that you have nothing really to say. This eliminates 'the unbearable lightness' of speculation that haunts public debate."
Albena Azmanova, social philosopher, political commentator and activist

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