The theorists
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Alistair Smith
www.alite.co.uk/about_us/people/alistair_smith.htm
Looks at the life and work of 'Mr Motivator' – described as the UK's leading trainer in modern learning methods.
Exams
www.tes.co.uk/section/story/?section=Archive&sub_section=
Friday&story_id=377669&Type=0
Very interesting and in-depth discussion of the history of the British education system that covers the Black Papers written by Rhodes Boyson in the early 1970s.
Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences and Education
www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
Howard Gardner's work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education. This article explores the theory of multiple intelligences.
Lady Plowden
www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,376481,00.html
Obituary of the chair of a controversial
report, published in 1967, that changed the course of primary education.
Learn3K
www.learn3k.org
Learning technology research centre based in Dublin and run by Professor Stephen Heppell.
The National Numeracy Strategy
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/numeracy/
This strategy was introduced to primary schools by Anita Straker, famous for 'banning' calculators in primary schools and improving maths education.
Notschool.net
www.notschool.net/ns3/?view=about_notschool
An online research project looking at ways of re-engaging youngsters who've been turned off school.
Ultralab
http://ww2.ultralab.net/flash/default.html
Learning technology research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University.
Stephen Heppell was the former director.
What's New?
http://education.guardian.co.uk/thegreatdebate/
story/0,9860,574638,00.html
Twenty-five years ago the then prime minister James Callaghan made a speech at Ruskin College, Oxford, which transformed and continues to define public debate about education. Find out more about the educational debates of the 1970s.
