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Monthly Archives: December 2016

A Few Thoughts for the New Year

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Are you stuck in your projects? What are the stages of reality in project work? An imbalance of meditation over action is just as unsatisfactory as a bull-like determination to do, do, do with no reflection. This post looks at how your dreaming can work itself into reality.

Kids are being taught there is one kind of intelligence, and it’s all about memory-power

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In our last post about our research project in primary schools, Dan and I talked about the way education is largely justified to kids in terms of its economic value, and the dangers – as well as philosophical inconsistencies – of that paradigm.   This time, we’re going to talk about the dangers of one-dimensional…

Kids are being taught that education is of instrumental – and economic – value only

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Kids are being taught that education is of instrumental – and economic – value only   Our last blog post talked about how Dan and I decided to begin a research project in primary schools, based around asking kids what they think of school.   As you get into the swing of interview-based research, you…

Education Research and Making Kids’ Voices Count

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This is the first of a series of articles by Freya Aquarone and her research partner Dan.  We knew Freya when she was at Summerhill and she was particularly close to Leonard in Class 2.  She took leading roles in some of the impressive plays that were put on there.  She and Dan have visited…

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