EF Podcast No. 28: Understanding Understanding

 a critique of Kant on education

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education Forum member Dennis Hayes introduces Kant’s critical philosophy and examines its philosophical limitations.

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EF Podcast No. 27: Who runs the classroom?

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education Forum member Kevin Rooney asks: who runs the classroom today? With responses from Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, Shirley Lawes, Toby Marshall, Sally Millard and Mark Taylor.

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Towards a Subject-Based Curriculum

Towards a subject-based curriculum is a response to the interim report of the 'expert panel' which is reviewing the English National Curriculum.

The Institute of Ideas’ Education Forum members welcomed aspects of the report. However, they felt that the case for a subject-based curriculum for all children was lost in a publication that tries to be ‘all things to all people’.

The Education Forum members asked themselves a simple question: ‘What needed to be said?’

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Read the responses here

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Education Forum member Dennis Hayes argues against the banning of friendship in UK schools

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EF Podcast No. 26: The Return to Subjects

The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Professor Michael Young, author of Bringing Knowledge Back In, examines the return to subjects and the case for 'powerful knowledge'. With questions from Education Forum member Toby Marshall.

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A one-sided, if also enthusiastic, Antidote review of A Defence of Subject-Based Education

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University admissions

By what process should students be admitted to university?

Institute of Ideas director Claire Fox leads a discussion with Education Forum member Dennis Hayes, and a variety of other witnesses and contributors, including Michael Portillo (maker of documentaries and former Minister of Defence), Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Arts) and Wes Streeting (Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation).

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