It's all integral

Tony Buzan’s presentation on the creativity crisis. This emphasises what I have been arguing for years, through such things as Whole Brain Learning, that unless we help people learn to learn first we are on a hiding to nothing in teaching curriculum. Learning cannot be thought of as the natural consequence of being taught.

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Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institute, has thrown her weight behind the debunking the myth of learning styles. In an appallingly ill-informed introduction to an article in the Daily Telegraph, Julie Henry characterises learning styles based education as: … children are considered to have different “learning styles” and instead of being taught by the [...]

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Now here’s an interesting one. Evil’s a strong word, and a word that seems to belong to another era. Does any of the behaviour of modern British society cause enough misery that it deserves to be called a Social Evil? When this popped up it made me think … hard. I suppose quite a few [...]

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A campaign launches in the UK today which encourages school leavers, and particularly their parents, to think about alternatives to the “automatic” choice of a university degree course. The campaign by the Edge Foundation suggests that whilst university may well be the best option for many young people, others may be better advised to get [...]

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