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    Influenced by Sachs’ ‘activist identity’ I propose that pre-service teacher education or initial teacher education, as I will refer to it, could, and indeed should, encourage a new form of teacher; the ‘teacher-agent.’ This teacher-agent would be aware of the pressures and dictates of the neo-liberal educational culture and its ensuing performative discourse, and choose to resist it, in favour of a more holistic view of education. This view of education encourages inclusive, creative and democra…Read more
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    Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher (review)
    Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice 4 115-119. 2022.
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    The Case for Philosophy For Children In The English Primary Curriculum
    Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 36 (1): 8-25. 2016.
    The introduction of the new National Curriculum in England, was initially viewed with suspicion by practitioners, uneasy about the radical departure from the previous National Curriculum, in both breadth and scope of the content. However, this paper will suggest that upon further reflection the brevity of the content could lend itself to a total re-evaluation of the approach to curriculum planning in individual schools. This paper will explore how, far from creating a burden of extra curriculum …Read more