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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Government guidance on the setting of homework including references to parental engagement.
The Standards Site, department for children, schools and families
a study of 9 to 13-year-olds
Agnes Nairn & Jo Ormrod, National Consumer Council
There is a simple answer to the question ‘what is the value of research in the humanities?’ It is that research in the humanities is the only activity that can establish the meaning of such a question.
Jonathan Bate, AHRC (working draft)
TUC booklet on bullying, rights and redress.
Trades Union Congress, Trades Union Congress
Social Work Manifesto: we need to find more effective ways of resisting the dominant trends within social work and map ways forward for a new engaged practice.
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool,
Simon Frith, Oxford University Press,
John Blacking, University of Chicago Press,
Under the banner of saving the African environment, Africans in the last half century have been subjected to a new form of "environmental colonialism"
Robert H Nelson, The Independent Review, VIII, n1, Summer 2003
Losing our marbles? Who owns culture?
"Who would choose to go to a session on free will at 10:30 on a Sunday morning? A few hundred of the most engaged, passionate and discursive participants I have encountered. As a neuroscientist on the panel I felt my science was aired and challenged in exemplary fashion. As a passionate believer in engagement I couldn’t have been more delighted."
Daniel Glaser, head, special projects, public engagement, Wellcome Trust
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