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Public Toilets and the Limits of Freedom
20 August 2010 6:10 PM | 1 Comment -
Smoke and Mirrors
15 August 2010 6:06 PM | No Comments -
A Bloody Misalliance: Radical Islam and Infantile Marxism
13 August 2010 5:04 PM | No Comments -
The Bareback Porn Renegades
26 July 2010 6:27 PM | 4 Comments -
Edwin Rostron, ‘Morris and the Other’
10 July 2010 2:29 PM | No Comments -
Should Universities Employ Bigots?
10 July 2010 1:44 PM | No Comments -
Michael McCarthy, ‘English Exam’
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An Abhorrent Assault on Sexual Freedom
06 July 2010 6:52 PM | 1 Comment
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Education Archive
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Should Universities Employ Bigots?
Posted on July 10, 2010 | No CommentsPhilip Bounds considers Nicholas Kollerstrom's dismissal for 'Holocaust denial' to be part of an ongoing war on pluralism in universities. -
Fettering Freedom of Expression
Posted on May 29, 2010 | No CommentsFollowing the Leeds Salon debate on ‘Freedom of Expression’, Paul Thomas examines Leeds University’s ‘Protocol on Freedom of Expression’. -
The Pull of Reality
Posted on May 26, 2010 | 1 CommentMichele Ledda praises Wasted’s demolition of educational myths but argues for a more incisive critique of the politics of change. -
An Education Worth the Name
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsCharles Brickdale celebrates E.D. Hirsch's argument that knowledge is the key to literacy and education. -
Hands Off Poetry!
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No CommentsWhy the banning of a poem from the school curriculum is an important freedom issue -
Quest Love After Love
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsI would like to illustrate a problem we face as teachers of English and of poetry in particular. It is time to ask a few questions about how British pupils study poetry and what they are expected to know about it at the end of compulsory education. I will argue that, rather than being asked to provide a personal response to a poem, supported by evidence from the text, pupils would benefit from notes and a critical commentary drawing on some of the most insightful interpretations by literary critics and providing all the contextual information necessary to understand the poem. -
In Defense of Poetry
Posted on October 18, 2009 | 6 Comments'Education for Leisure' brilliantly evokes the inner life of a lost and unemployed loser and implicitly explores the psychological motivations behind a knife-crime. The consciously unnamed narrator struggles to deal with feelings of haplessness, absurdity and suffers an unconvincing relationship with reality: