Tag: research

Misconceptions or ‘neuromyths’

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Having spent a day at a conference about well-being, listening to some distinguished and well-known speakers in the field and chatting with colleagues working in education and young people’s support services, I was struck by the number of misunderstandings or misconceptions founded in scientific research that pervade education debates. Misconceptions that Annette Taylor (2017) calls “neuromyths”, although […]

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An introduction…

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I have been wanting to find the time to blog since I began my doctoral training to become an Educational Psychologist some 9 years or so ago. Partly, my thinking behind blogging was a somewhat selfish reflective process, but I also wanted to think-out-loud about the findings of contemporary research, to ‘trouble’, question and contemplate some […]

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