I came across an incredible quote recently, by the American evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson: “The modern education system is like a wish in a [...]

In this episode, titans of education Mick Waters and Tim Brighouse talk about their sensational new book 'About our schools: Improving on previous [...]

  So I just recorded a trailer for season 2 of the podcast, with news of forthcoming guests and an exciting announcement. Well, it's 17 [...]

by Mark Quinn This originally appeared in CollectivED Working Papers, Issue 12 (December 2020).  ‘If you had a magic wand, what’s the one thing you [...]

by Dr James Mannion There are many aspects to my work these days, but by far my favourite is that I get to work with [...]

  Short version: We don't teach children how to take part in reasoned discussions. We probably ought to think about doing that if we don't [...]

This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]

This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]

This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]

This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]

This is an extract from our forthcoming book 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]

This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]

This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]

This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]

This is the first in a series of extracts from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time [...]

Hello. My name is James, and it has been several years since I last blogged. It's not that I haven't wanted to. It's just [...]

A guest post by Dr Ian Cunningham. This article was first published in Juno magazine, March 1, 2015. Take yourself back to your schooldays. Did you [...]

Yesterday I was asked to make a one-page summary of practitioner research. I shared it on Twitter and it seemed to go down quite well, [...]

In the Learning to Learn curriculum I'm evaluating as the focus of my PhD, the first project we run in Autumn term 1 is an [...]