I felt enormously privileged today to be able to attend the Tapestry Conference in Glasgow to hear Jerome Bruner give a spellbinding performance.
For a man born in 1915 (93 years ago) he displayed humour, warmth and humility which would bely most men half his age - quite aside from his iconic intellect. In what was a [...]
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I’ll not kid on here - I first heard about attachment theory just a few months ago and then followed this up with a concrete example of it being put into practice at Lothian Villa. What follows is my layman’s understanding of what it means and how we might benefit from it in East Lothian.
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In my last post I was reflecting upon what Professor Lindsay Paterson had to say about the importance of disciplinary learning.
A Curriculum for Excellence sets out the place of Disciplinary (subject learning) within the curriculum:
It defines the scope of the curriculum as extending beyond subjects to include:
the ethos and life of the school as a community
curriculum [...]
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