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Are the new GCSE exams causing mental health problems?

2018-06-24T07:56:36+01:00June 24th, 2018|Featured|

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 civil service took a series of examinations of their knowledge of classic Confucian texts and commentaries. Those who passed the imperial palace examinations at the highest level would go on to become some of the most important and influential bureaucrats in the Imperial palace complex. These exams were intended to be entirely meritocratic in order to ensure that the only the most talented, rather than the wealthiest rose to the top. [...]

Reframing the debate: It's not what you do, it's why you do it

2017-05-23T07:37:16+01:00May 23rd, 2017|Featured|

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 teachers either don't know there's a debate or don't care about it. While this may or may not be true, some of the people I've interacted with in this time have, like me, come to change their mind about how best to teach, and some have become ever more deeply entrenched in opposing schools of thought. Calling these schools of though 'traditional' and 'progressive' is probably [...]

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education

2023-04-22T10:31:17+01:00June 17th, 2016|Featured|

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 same things over and over with the result that we all become a little more convinced of our own rightness. Perhaps this is because of the way the debate has been framed? The Great Educational Debate has always been framed as being between Traditionalists and Progressives. While no one is ever happy with attempts to try to pin down these positions, they can be summarised thus: Of course it's [...]

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