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Education

The potential of young people

October 21, 2009

I’m passionate about children learning through doing, using real-world situations to learn wherever possible and being involved in ‘work worth doing’. In doing so, they are encouraged to be useful members of our communities and society as a whole. So it is good to see research out today from the ESRC that argues that children [...]

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Learning, rather than being taught. (How boys are falling behind at school and what can be done to help them.)

October 20, 2009
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As the mother of four boys, two of whom are now in school and a third in preschool, it worries me to read that boys are falling further behind in school and that one in five boys cannot write their name after a year of primary school: Boys have fallen further behind girls in key [...]

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