Bad Education

The Guardian Columns

By: Phil Beadle

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Paperback | 13 September 2011

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Phil Beadle has been described as 'the scourge of education policy makers' and also as, 'a prolific writer of articles challenging the status quo in education.' "On Teaching: Uncut," is an anthology of some of his best writings from his column, 'On Teaching' published in the Education Guardian Magazine in the UK. Written in his trademark, simple, luminous and down-to-earth style, this collection is a wry look at more or less every element of educational change in the UK over the last five years. And, this uncut version crucially, leaves in all the jokes that the editors had previously cut out! A must read for educators throughout the world.

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"These well-written, extremely readable articles challenge both orthodoxies and cant. This is a book to be read, dipped into, and returned to again and again, but above all, a book to be read by all who have the interests of young people and their teachers at heart." -- John Dunford "chair, Whole Education, chair, WorldWide Volunteering, chair, Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors"

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Preface	p. iii
Foreword	p. v
The Learning Environment	p. 1
Life in a Glass Dungeon	p. 1
Macramé versus Rio Ferdinand	p. 4
Performance	p. 9
Classroom Organisation	p. 9
In Defence of Front of Class Teaching	p. 12
Pedagogy	p. 17
Let's Plaster On a Fake Grin and Trawl through This Sorry Sack One More Time	p. 17
Multiple Intelligences	p. 20
The Marshmallow Test	p. 25
Get Yourself a System!	p. 28
Of Seating Plans and Sealing Wax	p. 31
KeyWords	p. 35
The State Approved Method of Instruction	p. 38
Hands Up!	p. 42
Mind Maps	p. 45
Brainless Gym	p. 49
Marking	p. 52
Assessment for Learning	p. 56
Satisfactory?	p. 59
ICT	p. 63
Wind Upa Spod l	p. 63
Wind Up a Spod 2	p. 66
Wind Up a Spod 3 - The Interactive Whiteboard	p. 70
Failed Attempt at Wind Up a Spod 4	p. 74
People and Personalities	p. 79
What's So Wrong With Liking Your Students?	p. 79
Edutainment	p. 82
Haircuts	p. 84
Neckties	p. 87
Chewing Gum	p. 90
Boys	p. 94
Fear and Loathing	p. 97
Waterloo Road	p. 100
Literacy	p. 103
Blaming the Sector Before You	p. 103
It's Political Correctness Gone Mad!	p. 106
Learning from the Enemy	p. 110
Adult Literacy	p. 113
Boys' Reading	p. 116
Literature	p. 119
Education for Leisure	p. 119
Andrew Motion	p. 122
Politics and Policy	p. 125
Teaching on the Cheap	p. 125
Shaking the Spindlier Tree	p. 128
Welcome Mr Gove	p. 131
Handsome Dave	p. 135
Licensed to Teach	p. 137
Early Years Foundation Stage	p. 140
What is Personalisation?	p. 143
Religious Studies	p. 147
Floor Targets and Secondary Moderns	p. 151
Importing the Private Sector	p. 155
The Myth of the Failing School	p. 157
Private Schools	p. 160
The Epidemic of Homophobia	p. 162
Trans Kids	p. 166
Drugs	p. 170
Class	p. 173
Vocational Learning	p. 173
White Working Class Language	p. 177
White Working Class Boys	p. 178
Class in the Classroom	p. 183
References	p. 187
About the Author	p. 189
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