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The Guardian Takes Sugata Mitra to Task…

Posted on July 4, 2016 by John Connell

…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...

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The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education

Posted on November 4, 2014 by John Connell

The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...

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What every teacher knows instinctively…

Posted on October 19, 2013 by John Connell

…that teaching is not just complex, it is very complex! Teaching involves many tangibles, but far more intangibles. There is just so much in the whole com...