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Reading for betterment

Jan 24, 2017 | Category: reading
About 20 years ago, I read Tolstoy's uber-novel, War and Peace. The perfect set of conditions all came together: I'd just been sent a copy of the book by a friend who was keen that I read it, I was in...

Do we teach children to love reading? Part 2

Sep 13, 2016 | Category: reading
In my last post I wrote about sociologist, Frank Furedi's views on reading and whether we do a good job of fostering a love of reading in young people. In this post I want to explore his view that rea...

Do we teach children to love reading? Part 1

Sep 12, 2016 | Category: reading
This sounds like a really obvious question but, after listening to Frank Furedi at researchED on Saturday and subsequently reading his book, The Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, I've realis...