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Are the new GCSE exams causing mental health problems?
Jun 24, 2018 |
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Sitting an exam is, for most people, an inherently stressful situation. People have been sitting exams since at least the Sui dynasty in China (581-618 CE) when prospective entrants to the Imperial ci...
Reframing the debate: It's not what you do, it's why you do it
May 23, 2017 |
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For the past few years I've regularly railed against anyone who claims that either there is no debate about the best way to teach, or that said debate isn't worth having because the vast majority of t...
Is resilience even a thing?
May 03, 2017 |
Category: Featured
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G. K. Chesterton
Resilience - being able to bounce back from setbacks and cope with challenges - seems an...
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
Jun 17, 2016 |
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Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Nietzsche
Maybe those bored by debating the purpose of education feel the way they do because everyone keeps saying the...
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