Child Safety Frameworks

Overview This could arguably be the shortest report I’ve produced for this organization yet. If the question we are asking is if there are meaningful differences in national child safety frameworks across the US, Canada, and the UK, then the answer is simple: no. More generally, of the nations considered here, Australia has the most … Read more

Autodidacticism: Theory and Practice for Young People

Overview             Autodidacticism is puzzling: it presents the most obvious of observations, and yet it is totally revolutionary. It’s out of step with the dominant educational atmosphere, and yet it is altogether of the moment. It can feel like there’s nothing to tell young people about it, and yet it’s very important to emphasize it … Read more

Theories of Human Flourishing

Overview             An old truism about political and legal philosophy is that every such theory rests on a theory of human nature. If you plan to design a political/legal system, then of course you will need to have a sense of the types of people who will be governed by that system. By analogy, I … Read more

Wellness Education in Schools

Research Overview             Education intended to facilitate wellbeing might be one of the oldest practices of human civilization. At the same time, its execution in formal schooling is quite new and not well understood. On the one hand, the study of wellness is one of the oldest fields. After all, this topic was the explicit … Read more

International School Systems: comparing AP, IB and A-Levels

Part 1: International Programs Overview             The three most prominent international educational curricula are the AP, IB, and A Level. The first originates from the US, the second from Europe (founded in Switzerland by an international team), and the third is from the UK.             Of the three, the IB is the only truly “international” … Read more

Edutainment – Education and Entertainment

Research Overview The literature on edutainment is both utterly conclusive and entirely incomplete. It is conclusive in that study after study suggests that edutainment helps students learn. This idea has a long pedigree in having been voiced by towering figures such as Plato, Walter Benjamin, Dewey, Brecht, etc. To supplement those more theoretical claims, we … Read more

Play and Learning

Overview of Research Findings The literature on play is robust. Play is widely recognized as a universal human activity, and scholars have gone to tremendous lengths to make sense of that behavior. Yet, the scholarly literature on play and education is frustrating. On the one hand, play has a long history of being linked to … Read more

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