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Jan 24 2015

The Problem with Teaching Character

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 6 minutes of reading

You can’t read or hear about an Education Secretary (see here) or Shadow Secretary (see here) lately without chewing on a bit of GRIT and being told about how we should all be teaching ‘character’ for the betterment of…well, everybody. It surely proves good politics on the doorstep. Who could argue with wanting our children …

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Feb 22 2013

Character and Student Outcomes

Uncategorized / By Alex Quigley / 12 minutes of reading

We often focus upon the quantifiable outcomes in school: league tables, international measures and evidence based outcomes of cognitive ability, but we too often neglect those non-cognitive learning dispositions which will see our students flourish in a rapidly changing world. We ignore the less easily quantifiable aspects of an education – such as developing character: …

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