Seeking ways to engage students with Shakespeare’s Scottish play in far north Queensland, highlights disjunctions and surprising correlations between play and place.
An African philosophy of education offers new ways of thinking about the continent.
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The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
Supplication to authority – through pleading or vehement protest – is hardly the only way to bring about change in a democracy.
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There are two concepts in education theory – the social construction of knowledge and the notion of self-efficacy for development –- that could help build a true democracy.
Ever-envious of Singapore’s much-heralded success in teaching maths, politicians are keen to see its methodology arriving in UK classrooms. Education minister Elizabeth Truss explained some of the background…