Let's not go backwards on education

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of progressive education and its potential regressive outcomes for children and society.

‘Progressive Education’ - the idea that education must be authentic, child-led, and discovery-oriented - actually leads to regressive outcomes for children and society.  To secure progressive outcomes for kids and the future of our country’s, Kristopher Boulton and Daisy Christodoulou join the herd and lay out how the left is going to have to let go of some of its fallacies about the classroom and, most importantly, not allow ideas of the past take us backwards going into the future. Join us now for this special listener-submitted episode of No Sacred Cows - looking at the politics of and future of education, alongside a collection of tales from the classroom and lessons we can all learn about making schools work for kids and our society. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: No Sacred Cows

Guests: Kristopher Boulton, Daisy Christodoulou

Topics covered

• education
• progressive education
• politics
• child-led learning
• classroom outcomes

Keywords

• education
• progressive education
• child-led learning
• classroom
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: No Sacred Cows, Acast

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