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Education Today
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An ever-complicating system
Is our ever-complicating education system truly preparing our young people for the world of work?
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OMG… I got it wrong again!
Imagine if Fleming, the person who discovered penicillin, had thrown out his mouldy petri dish, thinking he had done his experiment wrong!
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Let’s hear it from a student’s mouth
At the age of 22 I stumbled across emails from my former teachers. I cried as I read them and in those moments I had a major realisation and invaluable learning …
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Box ticking or true wellbeing in schools?
Teacher wellbeing is an item that is firmly on the agenda and school leaders are being asked to ensure action is taken to address it, but are we hitting the mark?
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Examining rewards in the classroom: Do they truly support the student?
Do classroom rewards truly support children or do they set in motion ill patterns that they will carry with them throughout life . . . a forever seeking outside themselves for reinforcement and gratification?
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Gender based violence – where does it begin? Do we really want to know?
What is a man of true quality? If violence has no true value then there cannot be any truth in making violence a core characteristic of predominant masculine identities.
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What does it mean to be a teenager – the modern day myth of adolescence
What does it mean to grow up? What does it mean to be a teenager? Have we come to accept adolescence to be the ‘reckless years’ or a preparation for adulthood? Adolescence is a time that we can offer support to young people in their transition to adulthood.
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How 'Gifted and Talented' policies destroy access to true intelligence
Is any child more special than another? All have gold to bring. "It’s like they are saying we are not worth anything," says a student not chosen for the ‘Gifted and Talented’ programme.
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Mindfulness is not the way back to who you are
The current fad for mindfulness meditation exposed for what it is: a dulling down of the tension we feel in life so that we can function with less feeling of the hurts we are carrying.
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The corporate takeover of our kids’ future
There is an alarming new trend for privatizing education around the world. Corporations have their eyes clearly set on education as a new opportunity for profit. But who are the winners and losers here as our children become ‘products’ in a corporations’ lust to make bigger profits?