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Colin Hannaford British and Foreign correspondent EducationNews.org

For twenty-five years Colin Hannaford was a head of math - and latterly also head of ethics - at one of England's most prestigious international schools. Whilst there, he developed a new way of teaching math that is attracting increasing international respect and attention. He realised that what math should teach youngsters is how to think creatively and how to work together honestly. In the book, 473959 - has been published  (ISBN 1-4251-0942-X), and using is old Army number as its title to signify that important insights can occur to very unimportant people - he offers a unique practical solution to the problems of making peace between religions in our time. www.gardenofdemocracy.org

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Giving Peace a Voice - The connection between mathematics teaching and democratic education.

On January 28-29, 2009, at St. George’s House, inside Windsor Castle in England, an international symposium was held by the Institute of Democracy from Mathematics to examine the connection between mathematics teaching and democratic education. Participants from 12 countries were involved, including seven university professors.1 The meeting was made possible by the financial support of the Qatar Foundation. Its first President was Her Highness Sheikha Mozah, consort of the Emir of Qatar and UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education.

Letter from Oxford: cool, rain in afternoon; more rain overnight - and tomorrow.

Colin Hannaford
British and Foreign Correspondence EducationNews.org
Last week I promised to write a second part of my report on the four-day Second International Conference of the Academy of Critical Thinking in New College, Oxford; and this is it.

A Letter from a cold, wet, Oxford, expecting more rain overnight. (International Academy of Critical Thinking, Oxford)

Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EducationNews.org
As per your irrecusable instructions (and wearing a splendid badge declaring that me to be the Foreign Correspondent EDUCATIONNEWS.ORG - the first word in red, the rest in black: a nice touch I thought - but I do hope you realise that I am still not being paid!), I spent four days last week at the second annual conference of the International Academy of Critical Thinking, held this year in New College, in Oxford.

Letter from NOW

Colin Hannaford
British and Foreign Correspondent EducationNews.org
The Story
This is a very ordinary little story - but it contains a problem.
It begins on the afternoon a month ago when I visited my old friend Tanner in her big old house in central London. She was especially pleased to see me - although she is actually always pleased to see me - because her conservatory roof was leaking; and because I might be able to advise how to mend it. I have a reputation for this sort of practical genius.

A SUBMISSION TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY

by Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EdNews.org
What are the effective pedagogies for maths teaching? Is there a single, most effective pedagogy? What would you like the Review team to recommend in this area?

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by Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EdNews.org
What are the effective pedagogies for maths teaching? Is there a single, most effective pedagogy? What would you like the Review team to recommend in this area?

Letters from Oxford Series: A Letter to Herthe

Colin Hannaford
EdNews.org British and Foreign correspondent
I had definitely booked a seat by a window on the plane to Stuttgart. I found it occupied by a little old Jewish lady, who was peering down in apparent delight at part of a wing, half an engine, and a patch of dirty Heathrow concrete twenty feet below.

British government has decided to make derogatory remarks about homosexuals punishable by up to seven years in prison

Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EdNews.org
Dear Editor in Chief, You have sent me a report that the British government has decided to make derogatory remarks about homosexuals punishable by up to seven years in prison.You demand an explanation: instantly, of course. Okay. Well, quite apart from the fact that if I ever again tell my poor old dog - as I might - "You silly old bugger", I may get seven years in the slammer for offending his sensibilities, this is certainly an interesting development. It deserves an explanation.

To: Mr Khaled Al-Maeena, Editor, Arab News.

Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EdNews.org
I am the Director of the Institute for Democracy from Mathematics in Oxford. My Institute's website is at www.gardenofdemocracy.org where your readers may be interested to find in its 'Core Materials' the 'Socrates Workbook' in Arabic or English, and several other languages. This is a 30 page colouring book for children which they, or their parents, can download free, and which explains to them, in just five daily interactive lessons, how to use their brains to learn more effectively, at home or at school. This approach is now being developed in Germany, incidentally, with a view to its being adopted federally.

A Letter from England:

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah passionate denunciation of one of the world's largest official organisations for its inability to predict and prepare for crises before they happen was a pleasure to behold.
Colin Hannaford
Foreign Correspondent EdNews.org
I returned a week ago from the Qatar Foundation's 3rd Innovations in Education conference. The theme was literacy – actually, illiteracy – in the Arab world, and I and my colleagues were invited to join it as 'delegates' rather than as speakers. We were also expecting to confer about the progress made in the past year by the education 'task forces' we had been encouraged to form at the end of the 2nd IIE conference in the previous year.

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