The resonance and integrity of this body of thought will inspire those who, as Michael himself puts it, ‘against the current of the age’ are looking ‘to discover a language that is fit for the description of learning’. And equally fit for the discussion of teaching, assessment and curriculum.
Another Way of Looking: Michael Armstrong’s writing for FORUM (free e-book)
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Another Way of Looking: Michael Armstrong’s writing for FORUM. Patrick Yarker.
Michael Armstrong as Teacher. Jenifer Smith.
1. CHILDREN AT WORK AND PLAY
Another Way of Looking
Impassioned Experience: notes on the art work of three young children in an American Elementary School
The Leap of Imagination: an essay in interpretation
Time and Narrative at Eight Years Old: an essay in interpretation
Telling the Story of Learning
Teaching Imagination
Book Review of Mary Jane Drummond’s Assessing Children’s Learning
Playful Words: the educational significance of children’s linguistic and literary play
2. THE GREAT TRADITION
Reconstructing Knowledge: an example
Comprehensive Education and the Reconstruction of Knowledge
‘To Value Every Child in the Moment’
Book Review of Marion Richardson’s Art and the Child
Humanism in Education
3. A VISION FOR TEACHING
Recognising Imagination: agenda for a new generation
Thinking about Children’s Learning: reflections on an enquiry
Book Review of David Hawkins’s The Informed Vision: a programme for educational reconstruction
Brian Simon and FORUM: an acknowledgement
4. AGAINST THE GRAIN
Introductory Remarks at the First Caroline Benn/Brian Simon Memorial Lecture ‘Comprehensive Schools Then, Now and in the Future: is it time to draw a line in the sand?’, given by Tim Brighouse
Editorial. The Cambridge Primary Review
Introductory Remarks at the Third Brian Simon Memorial Lecture ‘Legacies, Policies and Prospects: one year on from the Cambridge Primary Review’, given by Robin Alexander
Education as Reconstruction: another way of looking at primary education. The Brian Simon Memorial Lecture 2012
Popular Education and the National Curriculum: a speech delivered at the FORUM conference ‘Unite for Education’ on Saturday 19th March 1988