Gawain Little EDUCATION PLAYS a number of different contradictory roles in capitalist society. On the one hand, it is essential to the reproduction of labour power – without education, there will be…
Category: Pedagogy
What is happening to Early Years education?
Lucy Coleman AS AN Early Years Practitioner of fourteen years, having worked as a trained nursery nurse and qualified Early Years teacher I find myself increasingly asking the same question; what is…
Mastery mathematics but who is the slave?
Julian Williams HAVE YOU heard of “Mastery maths”? You might think it’s the latest fad, the latest government imposition, or the latest resource for learning mathematics. Maybe it’s all these things? You…
We need roses too: Student voices in revolutionary Cuba
Aretha Green IN OCTOBER 2018, I was privileged to take part in a six-day National Education Union delegation to Cuba. This short article is a reflection on some of what I experienced…
No-one’s brain is pink
Kiri Tunks Sexism still exists. It exists and persists in spite of the battles that have been fought, and we thought won, for women’s equality. THE FACT is women and girls are…
Measured intelligence moonshine and shadow
Patrick Yarker David Hawkins ‘The … talents and abilities of any newborn human being are wrongly expressed by the image of a fixed innate potential in this or that dimension, and by…
Pedagogy, power and control in Welsh education reform
David B Morgan As we approach the April 2019 launch of the new curriculum in Wales, clouds are gathering in the uplands. The naysayers are out and the bright lights and fanfare…
An inescapable concern The Scottish and English curriculum through the prism of Paulo Freire
James Douglas “This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of…
Michael Gove and the implications of ‘elitism’ in education
Ken Jones THE BREAK-UP of the welfare state, deindustrialisation and the end of full employment have been essential elements of neoliberalism. They have created social and educational problems which have deepened since…
Challenging neoliberal orthodoxy through creative pedagogy
Jess Edwards The terms “knowledge rich”, “powerful knowledge” or a “knowledge based pedagogy” are fast becoming a fashionable way of describing the values at the centre of a great education AT ITS…