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Free Thinking: Festival 2017

Philip Dodd

Tony Sewell

Mike Grenier

Fiona McLean

Free Thinking: Festival 2017: Episode 10: Education Slow and Fast

Education Slow and Fast

Episode 10

Episode 10: Education Slow and Fast

Festival 2017

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Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier discuss the challenges of education in the 21st century.

Tony Sewell, director of Generating Genius, and Mike Grenier, co-founder of the slow education movement, discuss how time and technology are at the heart of 21st century education.

Tony Sewell and Mike Grenier discuss the challenges of education in the 21st century with Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. Can idle curiosity, slow burning passion and a time for reflection be at the heart of our schools? Or does the increasingly rapid pace of technological change make that sort of teaching a luxury at best - or, at worst, an educational philosophy stuck in a time warp?

Mike Grenier is a House Master at Eton College and the co-founder of the Slow Education Movement, educators arguing the need to make time in the classroom for creative teaching and learning.

Dr Tony Sewell, CBE is the director of the London based charity, Generating Genius, which aims to help children achieve educational success. He began his career as a school teacher and, in 2012, was appointed to chair the Mayor's Education Inquiry into London schools. He works in both the UK and the Caribbean and helped to set up the Science, Maths and Information Technology Centre at Jamaica's University of the West Indies.

Producer: Fiona McLean.

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Series of events from the 2017 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the speed of life'

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