London Festival of Education 2012: Mike Grenier
There are three significant ambitions that the Slow Education movement seeks to achieve. The first is to improve the experience of education for students, teachers and parents. We would also like the quality of debate, the clarity of language and…
Slow Learning and Negligent Parenting by Mark Standen
I was listening to the radio on Monday morning and the presenter commented on a certain celebrity being pregnant and said, ‘having a baby was the single most important thing a person can do’. That really resonated with me, it…
Moral Psychology in Education: Left, Right or somewhere inbetween? by Mike Grenier
One of the more fascinating books I’ve read recently is Jonathan Haidt’s book ‘The Righteous Mind’. A Professor of Moral Psychology at the University of Virginia, his previous book ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’ looked to create a synthesis from the fields…
The Tyranny of the School Bell by Joe Harrison
Imagine if you and I were to have a conversation but I just kept on interrupting you every time you start speaking. You go to make a point but I cut you off. You try to ask a question, and…
Slow transitions….
I had an interesting conversation with the Head at Holy Trinity Primary in Darwen, Lancashire the other day. He spoke of how Slow approaches have helped his school in how they look at transition between Key Stages 1 and 2.…
Slow and Parenting by Mike Grenier
How much is too much? The recent debate about ‘hyper-parenting’ allows a rather heated sixth-form debate to rage online while the realities of modern education and parenting largely get ignored. Headlines grab and hold briefly, but there are some more…