Month: January 2020
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Great Education Thinkers: John Dewey
“The native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind” –…
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Three years or two years for key stage 3? The question about the ideal length of key stage 3 is actually more complex than it may seem
Claire Heald is Standards Director and Executive Principal at Inspiration Trust In the wake of the new Ofsted framework identifying the length of key stage three (KS3) as an inspection…
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Another look at critical thinking.
Rethinking critical thinking. One common accusation levelled at those who promote a knowledge rich curriculum is that there is an insufficient focus on allowing students the space to think…
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