Academic Philosophy for a General Audience. 8216; has just come out, by Daniel Stoljar of Australian National University. It has flattery at the beginning and end with razor sharp critique in between, which is my favourite kind of sandwich! At the same time, I respectfully disagree his position. For those who have lo.

I delivered this talk at the Festival of Education 2017. From my notes and my memory, here is what I said. It is very long and borrows from previous blogs and tweets. I want to argue that education suffers in the U. because we focus too much on how to teach, often in the name of pedagogy, at the expense of any real emphasis on what to teach.

This week, we carried out our first set of nationally standardised assessments. These show the progress our pupils have made throughout the year in reading, English and Maths. How to get them reading. Which diagnostic assessments are useful? Vocabulary a.

There will never be a just social order until philosophers are kings, or kings become philosophers. A New Model of Teacher Development. We start with a teacher, who will have a certain mindset. That mindset could be any nu.

Icing on the Cake - An education blog. Ofsted Schools Data Dashboard - a 2015 update. My Festival of Education Presentation. Is Ofsted Playing Charades? What If Everything You Knew About Education Data Was Wrong? A Slight Change of Direction.

Will online courses be set up to feed what might be perceived as a need for preparation? The revolution starts here.

Towards a unified theory of negative capability.

An English teacher trying to get better. Looking to discuss and share teaching and learning ideas. What do we want from the KS3 Curriculum? Around two and a half years ago, Head teacher Tom Sherrington posted this tweet.