Education… Why arts education matters now 14 May 2020 ‘All schools should be art schools’ proclaimed Bob & Roberta Smith and now as schools are providing on offsite provision how that vision is realised will be one of many challenges schools…
Education… Indicators of (musical) thinking together 10 May 2020 In a previous post I wondered if the six types of talk proposed by Robin Alexander could be six types of (creative) music-making: Collective: 'address learning tasks together' - ensemble…
Education… A dialogic teaching companion to music 26 Apr 2020 I'm working my way through Robin Alexander's A Dialogic Teaching Companion (2020). I've reached the centre of the book where Alexander introduces his revised framework. I won't reproduce the framework…
Education… Googling dialogic teaching 6 Aug 201825 Apr 2020 Well before I read the EEF report on dialogic teaching I did a google search and found several news stories and opinion pieces that followed the release of the report.…