Resources
Here are some things we have been reading, and some news items we have noticed. The fact that we have listed Resources here does not mean we agree with them, or that this particular selection of items should be regarded as an indication of STE’s policy.
We share them in the spirit of generating an informed conversation.
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ARTICLES
Patrick Howard, 21stCentury Learning as a Radical Re-Thinking of Education in the Service of Life
Available to download at
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/8/4/189
Fusion: Creating Opportunities through Culture (Welsh Government initiative 2017-19)
https://gov.wales/topics/culture-tourism-sport/tackling-poverty-through-culture/?lang=en
English schools are broken. Only radical action will fix them(article in Guardian, Melissa Benn): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/09/schools-broken-radical-action-education
Rethinking education: towards a global common good?– UNESCO Digital Library
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000232555
What can we learn from using neuroscience in Education? Wellcome Trust
https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/using-neuroscience-design-education-interventions-what-have-we-learned?utm_campaign=1682806_E%26L%20Newsletter%20Feb%202020&utm_source=email&dm_i=2PXJ%2C102GM%2CMK1UK%2C3STU4%2C1
REFERENCES FROM OUR EDUCATION CAFES®
Café 2: https://futuregenerations.wales/resources_posts/education-fit-for-the-future-in-wales-report/
Zoom Café 1: For full details of our Zoom Café about Adverse Childhood experiences, and the related resources, click here.
BOOKS
The Learning Brain: lessons for education, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith, Blackwell 2005
Compulsory Miseducation, Paul Goodman, Penguin Education Special, 1972
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose, 2001
How People Learn (conference proceedings) (National Academy of Sciences) https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24783/how-people-learn-ii-learners-contexts-and-cultures
David Hicks, “Radical Education” in Ward, S. ed. (2004) Education Studies: A Student Guide, Routledge-Falmer
Available to download at http://www.teaching4abetterworld.co.uk/docs/download9.pdf
REPORTS AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Social Mobility Commission (2021): Against the Odds – achieving greater progress for secondary students facing socio-economic disadvantage.
Wave Trust: The Economics of Early Years Investment (2013)
https://www.wavetrust.org/conception-to-age-2-the-economics-of-early-years-investment
Wave Trust: Conception to Age 2 – the age of opportunity (2013)
https://www.wavetrust.org/conception-to-age-2-the-age-of-opportunity
Lego Foundation: Learning through Play (2017)
https://www.legofoundation.com/media/1063/learning-through-play_web.pdf