Tag Archives: Prejudice

Teaching Critical Thinking or Teaching Empathy

I noted over the last week that the government is suggesting that one of responses to the recent riots should be to teach young people, from the earliest possible age within schools, how to engage critically with social media and how to recognise false news. Effectively this is a call to introduce critical thinking andContinue reading “Teaching Critical Thinking or Teaching Empathy”

Backs to the Wall: Learning from Clause 28

There has been a certain amount of discussion in the higher education press recently about legislation passing through several States across the Atlantic that aims to curtail the teaching of critical race theory or particular approaches to trans-gender issues. The response, at least from those on the left, the so-called ‘woke’ community, is, understandably oneContinue reading “Backs to the Wall: Learning from Clause 28”