Bernard Andrews
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Philosophy teacher. Immigrant. Valencia, Spain
https://bernardandrews.wordpress.com
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I'm not crying, you're crying - wife asked me if I had a cable. Yes, yes I did!
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Christian Moore-Anderson
11 days ago
The beauty of this book cover isn't AI. My talented wife created the look to match my words. She made the strip herself (see the shaded bit where it was glued on the left). Then sought the background colour she liked (it was notebook cover) and took a photo to form a shadow from the sun's rays.
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17 days ago
Wanting to write a blog post about the limits and problems of Engelmann's behaviourist theory, I began reading again. And, good god, look at this paragraph and realise why science education in the UK has gone to soul-destroying transmission and mini-whiteboards:
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WHen people write about 'questioning' for teachers, it's basically just about how to use questions as formative assessment - as part of some form of training towards a closed goal. But you can also ask questions to find out what the students actually think and take an interest in their answers!
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Sue Cowley
20 days ago
Possibly controversial opinion. This 'I do, we do, you do' thing that is everywhere now is about instruction rather than education. We are being too adult controlling about learning atm. Whatever happened to a bit of open endedness, lateral thinking and self-expression? Glad I teach in early years.
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Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind
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Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind
1. There was an interesting article in the Athletic recently about how Michigan Basketball coach, Dusty May, had been learning from Doug Lemov.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/lemov-pondiscio-and-the-closing-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind
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Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind
1. There was an interesting article in the Athletic recently about how Michigan Basketball coach, Dusty May, had been learning from Doug Lemov.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/lemov-pondiscio-and-the-closing-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
27 days ago
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The phrase ālearning is invisibleā is a lazy and sloppy cliche which we should probably stop using.
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Learning is not invisible
The idea that ālearning is invisibleā is a lazy and sloppy dogma which we should probably reject.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/learning-is-not-invisible?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Peter Steidinger
about 1 month ago
Warum "Lernen ist unsichtbar" eine beliebte, aber an sich wenig sinnvolle Phrase ist.
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"Others might bring up that abomination of a sentence, ālearning is change in long-term memoryā, which just ignores most of the ways in which we use the word..." I enjoyed this very thorough exploration of the visibility of learning, from
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Sue Cowley
about 1 month ago
This is very interesting indeed. Unfortunately I think the idea that learning can only be made 'visible' by testing a learner's memory has got embedded in our education and accountability systems.
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The phrase ālearning is invisibleā is a lazy and sloppy cliche which we should probably stop using.
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Learning is not invisible
The idea that ālearning is invisibleā is a lazy and sloppy dogma which we should probably reject.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/learning-is-not-invisible?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Christian Moore-Anderson
about 1 month ago
New post! ā Does "checking for listening really help learning"? Please share š
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Does āchecking for listeningā help learning? ā Christian Moore Anderson
Iāve attended a couple of training sessions as a teacher in which the trainer would ask ācheck for listeningā questions. Theyād tell us things and then ask a qu
https://christianmooreanderson.com/does-checking-for-listening-really-help-learning/
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Christian Moore-Anderson
about 2 months ago
New post! ā Teaching tricks, fidelity, and the illusion of "best bets"
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Teaching tricks, fidelity, and the illusion of ābest betsā ā Christian Moore Anderson
Recently, a claim has emerged: if leaders are frustrated with teaching outcomes, the fault isn't the teacher, but the specific techniques (like turn and talk) t
https://christianmooreanderson.com/teaching-tricks-fidelity-and-the-illusion-of-best-bets/
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Christian Moore-Anderson
2 months ago
Evan Thompson on how "controlled hallucination" and "Predictive Processing" are wrong.
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James Durran
2 months ago
This is such an important perspective, which is so often missing from discussions of "what works" in education. From
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Efficiency is an educational vice
How āefficiencyā derailed education
https://bernardandrews.substack.com/p/efficiency-is-an-educational-vice
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Christian Moore-Anderson
2 months ago
Fantastic read for a Saturday morning: by
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Efficiency is an educational vice
How āefficiencyā derailed education
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This is an important and good interview, regardless of one's opinions on what the prof says.
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Jon Severs
2 months ago
"Iāve been quite swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and itās only in the past 10 years or so that I have felt things have gone too far, and very slowly I have come to say, 'No, this is not right'" Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to
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Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum
The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/uta-frith-interview-autism-not-spectrum
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Laura McInerney
3 months ago
The most important part of the White Paper will be *how* decisions are going to be made about which support is effective and who should get it. In the end, thatās the crux of any SEND reform.
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Christian Moore-Anderson
3 months ago
The other day,
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prompted me to describe how I would teach a concept. I found it almost impossible. And, it had me wondering why, a full time biology teacher, head of biology, & someone who has written so much on biology education, couldn't do it easily. Here's my answer š§µ
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Happiness and life-goals
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Chapter 1: Happiness and life-goals
Those who know me, might well laugh at the idea that I might try to write something about āa good lifeā.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ofgodsanddata/p/chapter-1-happiness-and-life-goals?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Happiness and life-goals
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Chapter 1: Happiness and life-goals
Those who know me, might well laugh at the idea that I might try to write something about āa good lifeā.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ofgodsanddata/p/chapter-1-happiness-and-life-goals?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
3 months ago
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Christian Moore-Anderson
3 months ago
A tough but incredibly rewarding book for me is Maturana's The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love. It paints a very different picture from this. Humans are a loving species who get physically ill when deprived of it.
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Christian Moore-Anderson
3 months ago
I declare this book finished. It's been intense. So much editing. This is the most important work I've written. As far as I'm aware, the first book for general teachers that's deeply rooted in *enactive* cognitive science. Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough Out soon!
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Peter Steidinger
3 months ago
Bei
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gibt es immer Interessantes zu lesen. Ein "Bookmark" für seine Seite wäre meine Empfehlung:
bernardandrews.substack.com
Und ja, Bildung braucht die Philosophie ganz dringend.
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Bernardās Substack | Bernard Andrews | Substack
A philosophical look at political and educational issues. Click to read Bernardās Substack, by Bernard Andrews, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Beide Artikel zeigen, inwiefern die "Cognitive Sciences" einem Szientismus verfallen, wenn sie meinen, die Grenzen ihres Gegenstandes überschreiten zu müssen (etwas vereinfacht gesagt...). 2/2
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"Predictive Processing" is a zombie-ant fungus
(This post is written in response to Adam Wray who argued here that Predictive Processing could explain the difficulties with Engelmannās theories of instruction.)
https://bernardandrews.substack.com/p/predictive-processing-is-a-zombie
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Peter Steidinger
3 months ago
Interessanter Artikel von
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zum Problem mit Modellen wie "Predicitve Processing", der auf einem anderen Artiekl aufbau, nƤmlich... 1/2
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Any RTs would be gratefully received.
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In this post, I trace the idea that we can āreverse engineerā the mind back to its roots in Kantās transcendental arguments and argue that the idea doesn't make as much sense as it might first appear.
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Why Cog Sci Kant explain the mind
On Kant's legacy in the learning sciences
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/why-information-processing-accounts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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The 'Predictive processing' theory is a zombie-ant fungus.
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"Predictive Processing" is a zombie-ant fungus
(This post is written in response to Adam Wray who argued here that Predictive Processing could explain the difficulties with Engelmannās theories of instruction.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/predictive-processing-is-a-zombie?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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On why Engelmann's theory doesn't make sense and how it can be improved.
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Faulty Communication: Engelmannās critical misconception
Some thoughts on what's wrong with Engelmann's theory of instruction and how it can be improved.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/faulty-communication-engelmanns-critical?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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On why Engelmann's theory doesn't make sense and how it can be improved.
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Faulty Communication: Engelmannās critical misconception
Some thoughts on what's wrong with Engelmann's theory of instruction and how it can be improved.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/faulty-communication-engelmanns-critical?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
4 months ago
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Christian Moore-Anderson
4 months ago
Really nice post from
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#EduSky
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Controversy in the classroom
Would philosophy lessons help with teaching controversial topics and media literacy?
https://substack.com/inbox/post/183888408
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Christian Moore-Anderson
4 months ago
A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching. Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions). Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
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Lots of food for thought here.
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Last time for this. Section 57 of the 1944 Butler Act formalised a horrible prejudice: that some people are incapable of being educated. It is a prejudice we have failed to properly address.
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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SEN are a property of the eudcators not the educated. A new substack post in which I argue that Special Education policy should never have focussed on what the child *needs* to be educated, but instead on what the LEA *needs* to educate the child.
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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SEN are a property of the eudcators not the educated. A new substack post in which I argue that Special Education policy should never have focussed on what the child *needs* to be educated, but instead on what the LEA *needs* to educate the child.
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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SEN are a property of the eudcators not the educated. A new substack post in which I argue that Special Education policy should never have focussed on what the child *needs* to be educated, but instead on what the LEA *needs* to educate the child.
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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Wacky idea #1000: it has never been the children that have special educational needs, it's the LEAs!
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Wacky idea #1000: it has never been the children that have special educational needs, it's the LEAs!
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Wacky idea #1,000: It has never been the children who have special educational needs, itās the LEAs!
In this slightly rushed post, I investigate the idea that SEN are qualities of the educators not those to be educated. Just a provocation...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bernardandrews/p/wacky-idea-1000-it-has-never-been?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35t6uv
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Tes magazine
5 months ago
What do we mean by 'learning'? Most of us agree that it's about more than just exam grades, but we need a formal definition if we want education policy that works for all, writes
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How do we define 'learning' ā and why does it matter?
Most people would agree there is more to learning than performance on tests, but we need to formalise that definition to make sure it drives policy and practice, says Bernard Andrews
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/how-to-define-learning
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Sue Cowley
5 months ago
A very interesting read from
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Sue Cowley
5 months ago
'Retrieval practice' is not a synonym for teaching or learning. The learning = memory narrative is really problematic for our conception of what education is.
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Chris Bertram
5 months ago
A reminder, if one were needed, that for all their talk of āvile criminal gangsā, our states would punish the Good Samaritan himself if he were to help a migrant
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Trial of aid workers accused of facilitating illegal entry of migrants into Greece set to begin
The accused, including Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini and Irishman Sean Binder, were among those providing humanitarian assistance in Europeās migration crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/trial-of-aid-workers-accused-of-facilitating-entry-of-migrants-into-greece-set-to-begin
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Huh this was quite the read, and also the profile pic is great
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Every day this seems like a better and better idea. I can't think of any better way to enable media literacy (and support decent journalism) than to have the govt pay for subscriptions to decent newspapers.
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Portugal funds digital subscriptions for youth
From Friday, May 10, thousands of young people in Portugal can sign up for a free digital subscription to a major national newspaper or magazine.
https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/05/10/portugal-funds-two-year-digital-subscriptions-for-young-readers/
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Roland Smith
5 months ago
He really does.
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Chris Bertram
5 months ago
This is a direct consequence of Jenrick's attacks. He needs to be held responsible.
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Immigration judges targeted by far right after Tory MPās campaign | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/immigration-judges-targeted-by-far-right-groups
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