ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Education

Daycare Trust and Family Parenting Institute to form one new organisation

The Daycare Trust and the Family and Parenting Institute are to merge under a new name from next year, the charities have announced. (Image courtesy of Daycare Trust) This is exciting news for…

Practical wisdom, now more than ever…

We recently revisited the Gel talk, by Professor Barry Schwartz, of Swarthmore College, from the Gel Conference 2009. This presentation is about the need to embrace, or rather re-embrace, the notion expounded by…

Are we anaesthetising our children?

A question posed by Sir Ken Robinson, world renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the Royal Society of the Art’s, Benjamin Franklin award in October 2010. You can follow it in…

The web and education – how we think about information

Michael Wesch of Kansas State University produces a continuous stream of films and concept refreshing ideas about information, education and the cultural power of the web. The short film below offers the viewer…

The Schools System and
the Draft Structural Reform Plan

Somewhere, in my past I remember being told ‘more haste less speed.’ The Draft Structural Reform Plan is in plenty of haste. Built into that, is the feeling that there is no time…

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