Rethinking Education
By Dr James Mannion
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"Civilisation is a race between education and catastrophe." (HG Wells)
In this podcast, we take Wells at his word. Hosted by Dr James Mannion and David Cameron, Rethinking Education features long-form conversations with fascinating guests about how we might create a more diverse, intelligent, responsive educational ecosystem that works for *all* young people.
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“Autonomy isn't ANARCHY!”: A conversation with Sophie Smith-Tong
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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"We NEED to talk about power dynamics in schools! " - with Dee Nic Sitric
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Learning to be, learning to live together: The missing pillars of education with Sue Roffey
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Education as expanding dialogue – Rethinking learning with Professor Rupert Wegerif
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Teaching that grips: Hywel Roberts on the Pedagogy of Botheredness
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Seven minutes out of every thirty are lost to low-level disruption. But why?
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Generation to generation: Holocaust education in a changing world
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Why ‘consistency’ isn’t enough: the implementation blind spot in school behaviour
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Rebooting behaviour: the two missing pieces of the puzzle (with Tara Elie)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Why ‘belonging’ isn’t enough: The missing piece in behaviour, attendance and staff burnout (w/ Tara Elie)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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"It’s choppy out there – but hope is happening...": Strap in for the 2025 end of year review!
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Inside the Curriculum & Assessment Review: What Changed, What Didn’t – And Why
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Dave Whitaker on relational practice, inclusive culture, and “battering them with kindness”
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Boarding school trauma and "the myth of privilege” - a conversation with Chris Braitch
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Nick Covington and Kate McAllister on Restoring Humanity to Education
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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"There is more to human development than learning about subjects" Repod Season 6 launch!
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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“We need a new language!" Jaz Ampaw-Farr on hope, trauma tourism and teachers as everyday heroes
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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What Are We Teaching? Powerful knowledge, capabilities, and teacher autonomy – with Richard Bustin
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Fixing the SEND Crisis – with Amjad Ali
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Rocking the system: Live songwriting, earworms and education reform with Rocktopus
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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"You can't afford not to!" Headteacher Kulvarn Atwal on the power of slice teams
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The Schools Bill: Academies, Homeschooling & School Shaming (Warwick Mansell & Naomi Fisher)
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May 30, 2025 |
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John Tomsett & Mary Myatt on Alternative Provision and our splintering education system
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May 02, 2025 |
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Adolescence, masculinities and… Batman (with Lewis Wedlock)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The 4 nations of the UK: What can we learn from one another?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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How to make classrooms feel warm and alive, with Hywel Roberts and Tim Taylor
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Debra Kidd, Tina Farr and Clare Whyles on how to cultivate hope, joy and belonging
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Introducing our new co-host, (The Real) David Cameron!
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Unfinished Business of Sir Tim Brighouse - with Mick Waters and David Cameron
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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“Talking Floats On A Sea Of Write”: Clare Sealy on Oracy and Literacy
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Sir Anthony Seldon on oracy, agency and meditation
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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How to change the admissions code, with Curtis James from Class Divide
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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"Before 7? They have a childhood." Lessons from Estonia with Gunda Tire
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Rupert Sheldrake on learning by doing, cancel culture and the moral vacuum at the heart of education
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Meena Wood on curriculum reform, learning from other countries and flying the flag for FE
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May 26, 2024 |
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René Kneyber and Valentina Devid on the Power of Formative Action [#REPOD S4E13]
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May 19, 2024 |
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Ife Obasa on representation, work experience… and God!
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May 02, 2024 |
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Peter Higgin on the power of learning through immersive play
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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"Civilisation rests on our shoulders!": Peps Mccrea on motivated teaching
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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"It's an absolute shocker": Fiona Millar on the marketisation of education
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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S4E8: “We’ve lost the plot”: Ben Davis on creating schools that children want to go to
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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S4E7: Fixing the Attendance Crisis with Naomi Fisher, Ellie Costello and Ben Davis
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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S4E6: Eliza Fricker on parenting a child who can't - not won't - go to school
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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S4E5: Putting 'Beyond Ofsted' to the test with Lord Jim Knight
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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S4E4: Calvin Henry on Ofsted - “It was brutal. Really brutal and unnecessary.”
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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S4E3: Christian Bokhove on domain knowledge, generic skills and the maths wars
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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S4E2: Dave McPartlin - "It's not OK what Ofsted do to people"
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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S4E1: Ron Berger on 20 years of 'An ethic of excellence' - and ending the trad-prog debate!
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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S3E16: Dennis Sherwood on The Great Grading Scandal: 1 in 4 grades is WRONG!
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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S3E15: Cat Place & Ty Golding on the Curriculum for Wales
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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S3E14: "It needs to be broken up" - Frank Norris and Julie Grimshaw on the ongoing crisis at Ofsted
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May 27, 2023 |
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S3E13: Derry Hannam on becoming a democratic teacher in a state school
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May 20, 2023 |
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S3E12: David Phillips: “It has become a monster” [Heads talking about Ofsted #2]
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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S3E11: Martin Robinson on curriculum, community and the importance of anarchy
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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S3E10: Rebecca Leek: Straitjackets, ethics and inspectors' eyebrows [Heads talking about Ofsted #1]
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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S3E9: Melissa Benn on our divided education system
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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S3E8: Martin Robinson on creativity, character education - and why trads are the true radicals
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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S3E7: Fiona Cuthbertson on lobbying for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reform
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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S3E6: Dr Chris Bagley on the three invisible "shadow cultures" that shaped our education system
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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S3E5: Jaz Ampaw-Farr on the power of 'withness'
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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S3E4: David Price OBE on how to unleash the untold potential of people-powered innovation
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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S3E3: Sophie Christophy on consent-based education
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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S3E2: Ollie Lovell on visiting Michaela, XP School and the Self-Managed Learning College
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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S3E1: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - The GCSE is misaligned with adolescent brain development
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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S2E19: Jonny Hunt on Sex Ed for grown-ups: porn, consent - and the origin of the c-word...
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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S2E18: Peter Gray on why coercive schooling is "immoral and unnecessary"
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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S2E17: Emma Hardy MP on mental health, teacher retention and the power of oracy education
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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S2E16: "We need to take the politics out of education": Rachel Sylvester on the Times Ed Commission
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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S2E15: Introducing ‘Implementation Science for Schools’: an interview with Kate Barry & Elaine Long
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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S2E14: Why we should all be profoundly concerned about the Schools Bill
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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S2E13: Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters on 45 years of schools reform, and moving into an age of hope
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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S2E12: Jon Hutchinson on knowledge, assessment - and how to disagree agreeably
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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S2E11: Andy Sprakes on XP school: crew, compassion and changing the world (ft. Dec and Guraaj, Y10)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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S2E10: John Higgs on private schools, individualism and why the future starts here
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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S2E8: Warwick Mansell on academies, accountability and the absence of evidence in policymaking
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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S2E7: Geraldine Rowe on collaborative decision-making and why coercion is bad for kids
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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S2E6: Donald Clark on 2500 years of learning theory - from the Greeks to the Geeks
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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S2E5: Adele Bates on self-care, self-regulation and dealing with challenging behaviour
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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S2E4: Harry Fletcher-Wood on behavioural science, habit change and our failing public institutions
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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S2E3: Professor Michael F.D. Young: From 'Knowledge of the Powerful' to 'Powerful Knowledge'
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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S2E2: Yumna Hussen and Lottie Cooke on Pupil Power, mental health and ableist attendance awards
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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S2E1: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on the neurobiological case for progressive education
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Season 2 Trailer
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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S1E26: Rachel Lofthouse on exams, workload and the government's assault on ITT providers
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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S1E25: Dr Naomi Fisher on self-directed learning and how schools can do more harm than good
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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S1E24: James Mannion on Rethinking Education (Flourishing Education repost)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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S1E23: Amelia Peterson on the purpose of schools in a changing world
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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S1E22: Fear is the Mind Killer on the 'From Page to Practice' podcast
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #006 - Mental health and absenteeism: "Nobody ever asked me what I needed"
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #005 - Self-directed learning: "Dare to give young people autonomy"
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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S1E21: Adam Boxer and Tom Sherrington on ‘bad trad and groovy prog’
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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S1E20: Fran Morgan and Ellie Costello on speaking up for young people who struggle to attend school
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #004: Pupil Power: "Children are treated like economic commodities"
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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S1E19: Tom Sherrington on Rosenshine, behaviour and why we should stop grading schools
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May 31, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #003: "I am more than a candidate number"
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May 22, 2021 |
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S1E18: Kate McAllister, Kath Pratt, Hayley Peacock and Lucy Stephens on opening alternative schools
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May 21, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #002: The kids are all right
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May 08, 2021 |
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S1E17: Naheeda Maharasingam on injustice, moral purpose and decolonising the curriculum
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May 06, 2021 |
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Campfire Conversations #001: Where is the LOVE?
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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S1E16: Guy Claxton on neotraditional myths
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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S1E15: Kath Murdoch on planet earth, paradox and the power of inquiry
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1E14: Rachel Macfarlane on Learning to Learn, Rethinking Assessment and Obstetrics for Schools
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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S1E13: Ian Gilbert on climate change, neoliberalism and making children’s brains hurt
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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S1E12: Adam Boxer on behaviour, workload and neotraditionalism
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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S1E11: Ross McGill on Ofsted, EduTwitter and the trouble with academies
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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S1E10: Tim Taylor on the power of the imagination
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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S1E9: Kate McAllister on opening her dream school
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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S1E8: Priya Lakhani on our 'inadequate' education system
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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S1E7: Guy Claxton on learning to learn
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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S1E6: Kulvarn Atwal on leading a 'thinking school'
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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S1E5: Ross McGill on chaos at the DfE
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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S1E4: Ian Cunningham on why schools shouldn't exist
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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S1E3: Carl Rogers on significant learning
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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S1E2: Ian Cunningham on self-managed learning
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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S1E1: Debra Kidd on pedagogical activism
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Nov 27, 2020 |