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

Aristotle, Emotions, and Education

What can Aristotle teach us that is relevant to contemporary moral and educational concerns? What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of emotions, the possibility of friendship between parents and their children, or the fundamental aims of teaching?

Kristjan Kristjansson, Ashgate, 8 August 2007

Who’s teaching China’s next generation?
The influx of foreign teachers into China is both a boon and a problem, reports Chris Dalby from Beijing.
Chris Dalby, spiked, 30 July 2007

Citizenship needs a place of its own
If the national curriculum is a statement of what we see as vital to pass on to the next generation, then learning about democracy, justice and community values must be at its heart, not on the margins
Tony Breslin, Times Educational Supplement, 26 July 2007

Meanwhile down in England
"As well as focusing on traditional areas of study, the curriculum must also have a practical, everyday relevance for pupils and engage with important comtemporary issues"
Ed Balls, Times Educational Supplement, 19 July 2007

Be brave, Mr Brown, in the classroom
Of course children must be able to read and calculate, but learning how to split a phone bill or buy a car is more useful, for many pupils, than pages swimming with cryptic sums
Mary Riddell, Observer, 14 July 2007

Making a Balls-up of education
Frank Furedi, spiked, 10 July 2007

Intrusion, intrusion, intrusion
Dolan Cummings, spiked, June 2007

Intrusion, intrusion, intrusion
Dolan Cummings, spiked, June 2007

Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science
This book provides new insights about learning. It synthesises existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science.
OECD, 22 June 2007

Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education

Schools in Britain and the United States helped to lay the foundations for the greatest civilisation the world has ever known, but for the last three decades they have been in a state of perpetual crisis.

Tom Burkard, The University of Buckingham Press, 15 June 2007


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