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@warwickmansell The danger of headlines days or weeks apart is that the ‘dots’ are not always joined, for example, recognising potential causes of what some might refer to as the ‘Gove/Gibb/Bennett school culture’:
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Yes, if she was 30 seconds late for going to the toilet between lessons or needed the toilet during lesson, she was penalised, even denied the chance to go, told to wait until break where the queues would be enormous. There was only one toilet block. Inhumane.
I do hear this a fair bit, and have experience of it. Yet some advocates for high-control schools argue that they benefit the "well-behaved" ones. Experience suggests it's far too easy simply to assume this is true in all aspects, and suggests need to investigate+speak to pupils.
New: Collapse of Athena Learning Trust may place spotlight on its former leaders, and raise questions about why figures from Michaela Community School could not replicate its success. (Lead story in this new diary column). educationuncovered.co.uk/ana…
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Tagging in @warwickmansell for edutwitter to hear this programme. Had me in tears. John, written off at 15, practically illiterate. Expelled and sent to another school. What a story. The Head who gave him a chance, and Mrs Bowen who taught him to read and write and gave him tea
The coroner in this case is going to issue a prevention of future deaths report. But where is the analysis and learning from @educationgovuk , and from the education system, in cases such as this?
This is the incredibly sad story that featured in BBC Radio 4's File on Four investigation "Strict Schools: Taking Discipline Too Far?" over the summer. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3j4…
DfE reaction to the Mossbourne case, refusing to appear before, or even answer written questions from, council scrutiny committee, hardly inspires confidence. Suggests government is very defensive. Is it frightened of the politics of this?
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...helping teachers design powerful school curriculums that fully embrace the subject sensitive approach we are taking.
There no equivalent Pedagogical Principles paper in England, never mind one that pays proper heed to the diverse nature of the subjects across the curriculum.
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...the perspectives of the discipline of geography as central to the delivery of its substantive knowledge.
Additionally, the pedagogical principles paper that is being developed in NI to support the curriculum frameworks will have distinct subject-sensitive sections...
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...frameworks in NI are bespoke to the textures of each subject as a design principle.
For example, in geography, there is no detailed reference to the subjects disciplinary concepts in the NC in England, whereas they are core to our NI Curriculum. This positions...
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Various. One key one was the need for sensitivity to the subject disciplinary sensitivity when designing the curriculum frameworks. Pedagogical genericism has tended to accompany the knowledge-rich curriculum approach in England over the past 15 years or so. Our curriculum...
This is the incredibly sad story that featured in BBC Radio 4's File on Four investigation "Strict Schools: Taking Discipline Too Far?" over the summer. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3j4…
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And I can confirm that c. 100 local teachers were involved in writing the subject frameworks, and the Taskforce Advisory Committee was very keen to learn lessons from the weaknesses of England's approach so as not to repeat.
TransformED ≠ TransplantED
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Knowledge is knowing & it has more than one dimension...
eg
▪︎ Knowing that...
▪︎ Knowing about...
▪︎ Knowing what...
▪︎ Knowing how...
▪︎ Knowing why...
▪︎ Knowing if...
▪︎ Knowing when...
School experience should be about coming to ALL these facets of knowing.
New: “Knowledge matters, but education is about much more than memories and facts”. Intense debate continues as Northern Ireland ploughs on with curriculum reform heavily influenced by England
educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
One head of history, quoted here htani.org/statement-regardin…, described the proposals as “a splurge of events to cram into the heads of young people, like something out of Dickens classic Hard Times.”
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