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April 21st 2010 The publication of Liberating Learning: Widening Participation will be celebrated at a launch party at UCL.
Patrick Derham, Michael Worton (The editors) with Sarah Fletcher, a contributor and Christopher Woodhead the publisher of Liberating Learning: Widening Participation at the launch party in the Old Refectory at UCL.
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Liberating Learning: Widening Participation Edited by Patrick Derham and Michael Worton
In Liberating Learning: Widening Participation, teachers, philosophers, historians, and chief executives put the state of contemporary secondary education under the spotlight.
Their essays make the case that secondary education has been impoverished by a narrow curriculum and rigid bureaucratic assessment system, and that despite government attempts to widen participation, the social gap in education remains wide.
Inspired by the liberal tradition, the authors call for a more generous approach that will kindle the interests of young people and give teachers more freedom. They examine the initiatives that are successfully raising aspirations and participation, and argue that the best way to get more people from diverse backgrounds into university is to liberate learning.
The contributors are: Simon Blackburn, Nigel Bowles, Patrick Derham, Dr Rachel Carr and Dr Hugh Rayment-Pickard, Niall Ferguson, Sarah Fletcher, AC Grayling, Simon Lebus, Ray Lewis, Sir Stuart Rose and John May, Michael Reiss, Elizabeth Swinbank and John Taylor and Michael Worton
£10 Paperback ISBN 978 0956071682
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