Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters on 45 years of schools reform, and moving into an age of hope
In this episode, titans of education Mick Waters and Tim Brighouse talk about their sensational new book 'About our schools: Improving on previous [...]
The Rethinking Education Podcast: Season 2 trailer
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 [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Fear is the Mind Killer
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 [...]
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 [...]