How and why do the ideas of the nineteenth-century critic and educator Matthew Arnold continue to influence education today?
Category Archives: Education
Media bans and ‘media literacy’: a dissenting view
Teaching Adolescence: the antidote to ‘toxic masculinity’?
The Netflix series Adolescence is being used in schools to teach about the problems of ‘toxic masculinity’ and the dangers of the ‘manosphere’. What are the potential problems of this approach? Continue reading
Protecting minors? Book bans are on their way to Britain
There is growing controversy about the banning of books from children’s libraries in the UK. What’s motivating this phenomenon, and what can we do about it? Continue reading
Should we ban mobile phones in schools?
Reviewing arguments for and against – and proposing a media education approach.
Rumours of our demise…
The numbers of students opting for specialised courses in Media Studies and English Literature in the UK have been in decline for several years. How might we explain this, and how can we respond? Continue reading
Education policy and the ‘war on woke’
In the past few years, education has become one of the key fronts in the so-called ‘culture wars’. It’s a development that is likely to prove extremely damaging for teachers and students.
Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Media Education Approach
What are the implications of artificial intelligence for media educators, and for the media themselves?
The uselessness of literacies
Who needs data literacy?
Is ‘data literacy’ a useful response to the datafication of contemporary life – not least of education itself? It all depends, not only on how it’s defined but also on how it is practically implemented.
