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October 27, 2020
‘Thinking like an engineer’ Author: Janet Hanson
Engineers use their creative problem-solving skills, their understanding of systems and their ability to work collaboratively in teams to solve the world’s great challenges such as climate change, feeding an ever-expanding population or developing clean fuels, and the world needs … Continue reading →
April 3, 2020
Expansive Notes: Covid19 is a chance to… Blog by Ellen Spencer
Expansive Notes: Covid19 is a chance to… Staying at home has made a lot of people think. Whether about coping, finding meaning, how to best use this time, or how we might look back on this extended moment fondly, … Continue reading →
March 27, 2020
Expansive Notes: Our best reads for teachers (remote and homeschooling!) this week – Friday 27th March
Expansive Notes: Our best reads for teachers (remote and homeschooling!) this week Blog by Ellen Spencer At a time when teachers are working remotely from their pupils, and maybe even having to homeschool their own children simultaneously, many will be … Continue reading →
December 11, 2019
Research in practice – Problem-based learning
Bill Lucas and Janet Hanson Along with project-based learning and approaches sometimes characterised as enquiry-led, problem-based learning is increasingly being seen as a valuable pedagogy in FE and work-based learning (and, to a lesser extent, in some schools). Problem-based learning … Continue reading →
October 7, 2019
When Ruby met Ofsted
Why Ofsted’s new emphasis on intent is helpful to schools promoting expansive education Bill Lucas It is four years and many reprints since Guy Claxton and I published Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn. The good news … Continue reading →
May 13, 2019
Bills blog: Why we need to stop talking about twenty-first century skills
Bill Lucas urges us to move on from the rhetoric and focus on the evidence It’s a characteristic of human beings to want to look ahead and think about what might happen next. Indeed our capacity to anticipate and plan … Continue reading →
January 15, 2018
‘New blog – An open letter to the Secretary of State for Education’
An open letter to Damian Hinds MP Dear Secretary of State, Congratulations on your new appointment from all of us at The Expansive Education Network. We hope very much that you will wish to combine your passion for creating chances … Continue reading →
November 27, 2017
Why knowledge isn’t enough
Written by: Professor Bill Lucas | Published: 08 November 2017 With even PISA acknowledging the importance of creative thinking, there is an emerging consensus that ‘dispositions’ or ‘skills’ must be considered just as much as ‘knowledge’ Knowledge of all kinds … Continue reading →
February 27, 2017
Capable parents, capable teachers, capable children
By Bill Lucas http://www.aracy.org.au In October of last year when I was in Australia I wrote a piece for The Conversation headlined How to praise your child: why simply saying ‘well done’ is not helpful. I was astonished by its reception. … Continue reading →
November 28, 2016
‘Forget technical and professional education: there’s nothing wrong with the word vocational’
By Bill Lucas 25th November www.tes.com Ditching the term ‘vocational’ is likely to perpetuate an even more corrosive split than the academic versus vocational divide, writes a leading educationalist. There are at least three ways of raising the quality of … Continue reading →
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