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This is a follow up from a post in February of this year - A little bit of philosophy makes you smart… - about the effect of teaching primary [...]
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A Little Bit of Philosophy Really Does Make You Smart




(click and rate this post!)Miss Educating a Nation




(click and rate this post!)This week the UK government announced changes to the school curriculum. A radical shake up to deal with the new knowledge economy? Not quite.
The coverage over at the BBC spins it well, spin being the appropriate term. The launch was at that great institute of learning, Lord’s Cricket ground. Spinning cricket balls and [...]
A Little Bit of Philosophy Makes You Smart - Apparently




(click to vote)I was fascinated by a news article from the BBC last week (Nursery pupils taught philosophy), about a recent initiative to teach philosophy to primary school children. The research has been going on for a while, but has just been published. There is a fuller story with more colour to it in the Educational Guardian [...]
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