Bad Education Debunking Myths in Education [Paperback]

Foreword by Paul Black

Introduction by Philip Adey and Justin Dillon

Part 1: School Organisation
Are there good schools and bad schools?
Is vocational education for the less able?
Grouping pupils by ability in schools
Class size: is small better?
Supporting learning?: How effective are teaching assistants?

Part 2: Teaching methods
Traditional versus progressive education
Synthetic phonics: the route to reading?
Is informal education better than formal education?
The social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) programme
Computers good, calculators bad?

Part 3: Learners
Left-brain, right-brain, brain games and beanbags: neuromyths in education
From fixed IQ to multiple intelligences
Learning styles: unreliable, invalid and impractical and yet still widely used
TV is bad for children  less emotion, more science please!
Playing with emotions: why emotional literacy trumps emotional intelligence
The dyslexia debate

Index