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Five Ways to Teach: Behaviourism to Critical Pedagogy

A path through education's five founding pedagogical approaches, the live debate over how much guidance a novice learner needs, and a real policy succession that shows the same tension playing out in law.

7 stops

Six Ways to Teach: From the Socratic Dialogue to the Scripted Lesson

A second path through education's pedagogical approaches, spanning the oldest teaching tradition on record to a twentieth-century experiment in scripting every word a teacher says. The Socratic method questions a...

9 stops

From Nalanda to Finland: How Schooling Became an Institution

This trail follows the institution of formal schooling itself, not the ideas taught inside it. It begins with ancient centres of learning in India and Morocco, moves through the medieval European universities that...

10 stops

Cooperative Learning to the Flipped Classroom: Newer Ways to Teach

Six pedagogical approaches that took shape between the late 1960s and the mid-2000s, each paired with the researcher or classroom teachers whose work established it, from David and Roger Johnson's structured group work...

14 stops

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