This article describes the work of artists taking part in Creative Partnerships programmes and seeks to identify the ways in which they were able to motivate students, some of whom had anti-learning dispositions. These creative practitioners approached their task in a number of different ways from the teachers whose classes they shared. They…

The attitudes and behaviour of 1040 pupils aged 12-14 years have been measured at the beginning and end of the school year with a battery of attitude, motivation and personality tests in an investigation of the differential effects of group work compared to whole-class learning. A total of 44 secondary teachers of English, mathematics and science…

Analyzed how British primary schools interpreted discretionary time, noting how that interpretation related to amounts of time given to different subjects within the National Curriculum. Surveys and interviews indicated that over half of the schools had 5% or less of the week available for discretionary time. Circle time and health education were…