Teacher research: a love story
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 [...]
Donald Trump’s presidency was a failure of education. Here’s how we can fix it
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 [...]
Why call it the Learning Skills curriculum?
This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]
The origins of Learning Skills: A few vignettes
This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]
The origins of Learning Skills: James’s story
This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]
The origins of Learning Skills: Kate’s story
This is an extract from 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make it work for [...]
The death of Learning to Learn has been greatly exaggerated
This is an extract from our forthcoming book 'Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]
The case against Learning to Learn
This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]
How the EEF gets metacognition and self-regulation wrong – and why it matters
This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]
Learning to Learn: High impact for low cost, or snake oil for hipsters?
This is an extract from our forthcoming book Fear is the Mind Killer: Why Learning to Learn deserves lesson time – and how to make [...]
What’s the one thing you would change?
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 [...]
Praise for ‘Fear is the Mind Killer’
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 [...]
Young people managing their own learning: 5 powerful questions
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 [...]
Practitioner inquiry in 12 easy steps
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, [...]
“Who am I?” An identity project to smooth transition from year 6 to 7
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 [...]
Why oracy is more important than literacy and numeracy put together
To be clear from the outset, the title is no click-bait: I genuinely believe this to be true. It’s not that I consider written forms [...]
Student choice vs. an army of straw men
I stumbled across a blog this week which appears to be a critique of my last blog. I say 'appears' because the piece, by Michael Fordham, firstly characterises [...]
Rethinking secondary education. Imagine a school…
Imagine a school where, alongside the traditional range of subject disciplines, students are able to choose from a range of short, optional courses in topics [...]
Subject-based learning: let’s blow this baby wide open
Hi everyone. My name is James and I have thought there should be more to education than an almost exclusive focus on a narrow band of [...]
Is everyone OK with fact that we force 30% of children to fail their GCSEs?
In this post I argue that compulsory GCSEs for all, which means enforced failure for some, is profoundly unethical. I also outline an alternative model for secondary school assessments. Educational [...]