Slow Education are delighted to be part of a new campaign in the UK to abandon the disastrous Key Stage 2 tests. Slow Education opposes the use of high-stakes testing in primary education. Its impact on children and teachers is…
More Than A Score
Music Education in England: a view from the ground. By Will Green
Parents, teachers and head teachers are increasingly attracted to ‘slow education’ as the schools they are involved with become more limited in their outlook: a narrow curriculum (e.g. the E-BACC in secondary schools) feeding a test-driven system (e.g. SPAG tests…
‘Beyond’ documentary - Hangzhou CIS
Slow Education to China: Going ‘Beyond’. By Richard Pratt.
In an exchange of emails with my sister in the UK I tried to describe a recent ‘Slow Education’ inspired initiative we have undertaken here at the Hangzhou campus of the Chinese International School. “Basically”, I ended up writing, “we…
Tips for Slow Education from Millfield Primary School, West Midlands. By Michelle Sheehy.
There is, in our schools, a culture of fear and stress. Leaders and teachers are afraid of the next set of results and of what the consequences of those results might be. Due to this strain which is constantly present,…
Blackburn Slow Education Research Network - An opportunity for emergent learning across communities. By Dr Phil Wood.
The Blackburn Slow Education Research Network has brought together teachers from six primary schools across Blackburn to develop teacher-led research and project-based learning across a network of schools interested in supporting each other in creating learning experiences which place depth, creativity, understanding…