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Is everyone OK with fact that we force 30% of children to fail their GCSEs?

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T16:14:03+00:00March 29th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Metacognition and self-regulation: harnessing the how of learning

By rethinkinged|2019-02-04T01:40:13+00:00March 14th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

A few months ago I wrote a piece for Optimus Education's Insight magazine, which they have kindly agreed to let me share here. Here's a link if [...]

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What’s the point of Philosophy for Children?

By rethinkinged|2019-02-04T01:41:36+00:00March 5th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

As is customary, this blogpost was inspired by a discussion I had on Twitter the other day. The thread is here if you're interested, but in [...]

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Self Managed Learning: An interview with Ian Cunningham

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T16:14:55+00:00January 1st, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

A year ago, I began working as a tutor at the Self Managed Learning College in Brighton. It's an alternative education provider for young people aged 9-16 [...]

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We need to talk about the army of elephants

By Rethinking Education|2020-05-08T16:20:26+00:00December 17th, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

I wrote this back in March 2013 in an attempt to map current and historical discourses around education, and to question why some things just don't seem to [...]

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The heuristic hippo

By rethinkinged|2019-02-04T01:59:38+00:00December 4th, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

On Friday evening I received this series of 3 tweets from Greg Ashman, who writes a blog called Filling the Pail. https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/804805816582742016   https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/804806702893629440   [...]

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Making sense of the learning glossary: should this be “the knowledge” for educators?

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T23:53:37+00:00November 15th, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

This follows on from my last 2 blogs: Learning is meaningless A glossary of learning terms In this post, I would like to explain (to [...]

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A glossary of learning terms

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T23:58:10+00:00November 15th, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

In my last post I argued that, for educators at least, the word ‘learning’ is so vague as to be meaningless except as an umbrella [...]

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Learning is meaningless

By rethinkinged|2020-05-09T00:04:18+00:00November 12th, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

Definitions are important. Everybody knows this. If we can’t be clear about the meanings of the words we use, we should stop using them and [...]

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Our presentation on Learning to Learn at researchED 2016

By rethinkinged|2020-05-09T00:07:29+00:00October 22nd, 2016|Dr James Mannion|

Last month, Kate and I did a talk at the researchED conference entitled 'Rethinking Learning to Learn as a Complex Intervention: Raising the Bar, Closing [...]

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The only way is ethics *

By Rethinking Education|2015-07-23T12:26:31+00:00July 23rd, 2015|Dr James Mannion|

Here's the first draft of a short guide to research ethics I've written for the Praxis site. (Praxis is going to develop a fair bit over [...]

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Should schools count the opportunity cost? (Spoiler: no)

By Rethinking Education|2019-02-19T15:01:02+00:00May 27th, 2015|Dr James Mannion|

This is an extended version of an article that appeared in the TES last year.  Image: Pixabay There are many ways to win an education [...]

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Are exams killing our planet? (Spoiler: Yes)

By Rethinking Education|2020-11-18T15:27:19+00:00January 4th, 2015|Dr James Mannion|

In this post (first written in 2014), I attempt to set out a long view for education reform. I realise that what follows is quite far removed [...]

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