1st Edition
Well Educated: Leading Schools with Wonder, Joy and Wisdom
Introduction
Carolyn Roberts
SECTION 1: What is a good education?
The functionalist view of education.
Ben White
Education as self-realisation.
Hannah Knowles
Are all good schools alike?
Leora Cruddas
Should schools serve individuals or communities?
Melanie Ferron Evans
Who decides what a good education is?
Tim Oates
SECTION 2: A good curriculum
The best that’s been thought and said: the ‘knowledge-rich’ school.
Jon Curtis-Brignell
Education for creativity.
Sally Bacon
Building up educated citizens.
Richard Chattoe
Is a good school conceivable without great subject teaching?
Oliver Blond
Local curriculum development.
John Wilkinson
Education as transmitting knowledge, values and cultural identity.
Erika Podmore
Rendering tensions productive: Finding joy and seeking wisdom in the intellectual enterprise of the curriculum.
Richard Kueh
What is a quality curriculum?
Daniel Whieldon
SECTION 3: Is assessment fit for purpose?
Assessment and children’s experience of learning.
Clare O’Sullivan
The role of public examination and qualifications.
Ian Bauckham
The school leader as emancipator.
Michael Antram
Understanding, embedding and assessing complex competences such as creative thinking, collaboration and communication.
Bill Lucas
How do we know someone is well educated?
Anna Trethewey
SECTION 4: Who benefits from education?
Creating joy. What does educational success look like?
Richard Sheriff
Who are schools failing?
Katherine Walsh
Education for families who don’t see the point.
Daniel Talbot
What is fairness in education?
Loic Menzies
The broader societal benefits of education
Neil Renton
Is it possible to be overeducated?
Hugh Rayment-Pickard
SECTION 5: What is an educated society?
Education as a means to foster a nation with a shared culture, tradition and values.
Dominic Robson
Is there an education utopia?
Hugh Rayment-Pickard
A vision for a better world?
Carolyn Roberts
A community of individual talents
Lucy Hyams
Does society still value teachers?
Alison Peacock
Afterword
Michael Young
Biography
Carolyn Roberts MBE is an experienced headteacher, published education thinker and writer, a founding fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Co-Director of The Professional Teaching Institute (The PTI).
Hugh Rayment-Pickard MBE is Co-Director of The PTI and was formerly Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of education charity IntoUniversity
