Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Personalised Learning
General Teaching Council advice to Government and response to the 2020 Vision report.
The General Teaching Council for England, March 2007
The appliance of science
If scientists want to remain listened to, to bear influence on policy, they must recognise the social limits of their truth seeking and reveal fully the values and beliefs they bring to their scientific activity.
Mike Hulme,
Society Guardian, 13 March 2007
The brain on the stand
'Neuroscience, it seems, points two ways: it can absolve individuals of responsibility for acts they've committed, but it can also place individuals in jeopardy for acts they haven't committed - but might someday'
Jeffrey Rosen,
New York Times, 11 March 2007
The politics of naming: genocide, civil war, insurgency
In Iraq the politics are as messy as the military intervention is complicit. Darfur, on the other hand, presents a black and white canvas, where the perpetrators are so evil and the victims so helpless that only a rescue mission from the outside will suffice
Mahmood Mamdani,
London Review of Books, 8 March 2007
The harassment of press freedom
A law aimed at stopping stalkers is being used against photographers and even as a substitute for libel claims.
Duncan Lamont,
The Guardian, 5 March 2007
Waste not, want not in the £700m slum
There is a lot to learn from the developing world, where a scavenger mentality, grass roots recycling and sheer necessity can lead to imaginative leaps in redeploying waste
Dan McDougall,
Observer, 4 March 2007
A need for speed
'In this new century we need to expand space into time more than ever, yet instead of clear-sighted debate about the use of speed to enhance our lives, the developed world has perverted its meaning.'
Andrew English,
Telegraph, 2 March 2007
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