THE EDUCATION CONTRARIAN
Dr Peter Ellerton, PhDThe Education Contrarian: presented by Dr Peter Ellerton, Curriculum Director of the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project. Lecturer in Philosophy and in Critical Thinking. Science communicator and advocate for public reasoning.
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Beyond Cognitive Load Theory
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For the last decade or so, Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has come to occupy a privileged position in educational influence. Often presented as the Science of Learning, CLT pr...
Critical thinking, expertise and intelligence
The relationship between critical thinking, expertise and intelligence is not well understood
Someone solves a difficult problem and we say they’re a good critical thinker. Someone knows a lot about a topic and we assume they must be intel...
What is inquiry learning?
Inquiry learning is one of those phrases that seems to trigger strong reactions even without being clearly defined. For some, it conjures images of students left to discover knowledge without guidance, a kind of pedagogical free-for-all whe...
Explicit Instruction is not the Great Equaliser of the classroom
The challenge of educational equity is not answered so emphatically by explicit instruction
The term ‘pedagogy wars’ is a somewhat dramatic account of how supposedly entrenched positions on educational instruction and design are pitted aga...
When joyful learning becomes rebellion
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I recently took umbrage (on behalf of the teaching profession, I nobly declare) at a remark someone (an advocate of explicit teaching) wrote claiming that enjoying reading is an outcome of learning to read, not a goal (the...
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Curriculum Director, University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project. Philosopher, science communicator and advocate for public reasoning.
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