1. Education: A Contested Enterprise Alpha Plus Next Gen Taskforce 15 January 2009 Nick Hitchen Falcons School for Girls

2. The Alpha Gold Standard

3. The Common Sense Discourse

4. (The Times; 6/12/08, reader comment) My son is 4 years old & it is my intention for him to go to private school when he is 11. This will involve living in a smaller house, but I am happy to do this for the benefits he will get. Smaller classes, access to a variety of sports, languages & good old fashioned non-PC teaching!

5. Typology of Ideologies in Education Individual (progressive) Knowledge (traditional) Society (egalitarianism & elitism)

6. Teacher X & Teacher Y X externally motivates pupils through controlling actions Y encourage intrinsic motivation through self-development (McGreagor)

8. Cognitive Developmental Theory Intellectual & moral development as sequential (Piaget)

9. Constructivism (Vygotsky) People make their own sense of things in a unique way Need to give learners responsibility for their own learning

11. Metacognition

12. Learning Styles Learning Approaches Learning Style Learning Strategy Learning Preferences

13. Learning Styles Howard Gardener V.A.K Sternberg: analytical, creative & practical Emotional Intelligence Buzan MindMaps Left / Right Brain

14. Personalised Learning The purpose of education for all children is the same; the goals are the same. But the help that individual children need in progressing towards them will be different.’ (Warnock)

15. Sociological perspective Development of basic skills Socialisation Social control / social order Preparing for work

17. Political context (with a small ‘p’) Neo-liberalism Choice and competition Neo-conservatism Uphold traditional values

18. Experiments

19. Continual Conflict No correct answer Interaction between competing ideologies Tension between neo-liberal and neo-conservatism Gold Standard – permission to experiment

20. Questions ? ? ? ? Is education a process ? Is education a product to be consumed? What does education involve ? Where does education take place ?