Dr James Mannion

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1,455 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Rethinking Education · “We feel, therefore we learn!” Why education needs to get embodied - with Guy Claxton and Emily Poel · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

I have a standoff.

Who'd like to pick that one up?

Yes.

Yeah.

And of course, there is a lot of overlap with the big education model of head, heart and hand.

Of course, heart and hand being of the body below the neck.

They talk about a number of schools in their network, children, you know, wearing trainers and track suits at school instead of having to wear like itchy trousers and shoes, which no child would choose to do if they were given the choice.

There are schools that run a print shop, the fantastic school that runs a print shop.

They have a 60 year plan for their school.

I love it to turn around like attitudes in the families and the community that they serve.

And they run a print workshop and the kids work in this thing and they take commercial orders and deal with

With customers and what have you, they run a small holding farm.

They have Opal, the outdoor play and learning stuff going on at lunchtime.

And there are many other synergies and initiatives that you allude to in the book where this is already taking root.

Just a final sort of comment on this.

I suppose there are some people, naming no names, perhaps some of these strong adherents of cognitive load theory and the likes, who might dismiss this

book and this sort of work as a return to what they describe as like discredited ideas, like Brain Gym, which was around not so long ago.

You were mentioning sort of movement breaks earlier, Emily, which is sort of, I think most people would say, oh yeah, just like take a movement break.

But Brain Gym sort of went a lot further and made some quite outlandish claims.

I think it's fair to describe some of that as pseudoscientific.

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