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BOOK REVIEW: Fear is the Mind Killer

By rethinkinged|2021-01-05T12:03:39+00:00January 5th, 2021|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Teacher research: a love story

By rethinkinged|2020-12-01T23:50:46+00:00December 1st, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Donald Trump’s presidency was a failure of education. Here’s how we can fix it

By rethinkinged|2020-11-18T20:43:03+00:00November 18th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

  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 [...]

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Why call it the Learning Skills curriculum?

By rethinkinged|2020-11-15T11:14:46+00:00November 15th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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The origins of Learning Skills: A few vignettes

By rethinkinged|2020-11-15T12:10:55+00:00November 15th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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The origins of Learning Skills: James’s story

By rethinkinged|2020-11-15T10:29:11+00:00November 15th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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The origins of Learning Skills: Kate’s story

By rethinkinged|2020-11-15T09:57:32+00:00November 14th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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The death of Learning to Learn has been greatly exaggerated

By rethinkinged|2020-11-07T19:42:02+00:00November 7th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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The case against Learning to Learn

By rethinkinged|2020-11-07T18:43:31+00:00October 24th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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How the EEF gets metacognition and self-regulation wrong – and why it matters

By rethinkinged|2020-11-07T18:45:17+00:00October 20th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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Learning to Learn: High impact for low cost, or snake oil for hipsters?

By rethinkinged|2020-11-07T18:45:07+00:00October 19th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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

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What’s the one thing you would change?

By rethinkinged|2020-10-26T14:21:56+00:00October 18th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Praise for ‘Fear is the Mind Killer’

By rethinkinged|2020-07-11T09:59:01+00:00July 10th, 2020|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Young people managing their own learning: 5 powerful questions

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T12:17:55+00:00June 15th, 2019|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Practitioner inquiry in 12 easy steps

By rethinkinged|2020-05-09T00:19:14+00:00November 11th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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, [...]

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“Who am I?” An identity project to smooth transition from year 6 to 7

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T16:01:32+00:00May 20th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Why oracy is more important than literacy and numeracy put together

By rethinkinged|2020-05-09T00:23:44+00:00April 29th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Student choice vs. an army of straw men

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T16:06:03+00:00April 15th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Rethinking secondary education. Imagine a school…

By rethinkinged|2019-02-04T01:33:55+00:00April 8th, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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Subject-based learning: let’s blow this baby wide open

By rethinkinged|2020-05-08T16:08:16+00:00March 31st, 2017|Dr James Mannion|

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 [...]

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