Dr James Mannion

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Rethinking Education · "We need revolution, not evolution!" - Education of the Head, Heart and Hand, with Sarah Seleznyov and Liz Robinson · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

And my eyes lit up when I saw that, because this is another pet hobby horse of mine.

And it wasn't hugely clear as I was reading it, because it's called interdisciplinary project-based learning.

And then he writes that the...

the stuff that's happening in years seven to 10 every year.

And I was sort of wondering like, wow, how is that happening?

Have they carved out curriculum time that's away from subject learning for this work to take place?

But then there's a table.

I don't know how, it's probably a while since you looked at this, but there's then a table, some pages 82 and 83, if you have the book to hand, which sort of breaks it down by subject area.

So it's like, oh, here's a project that we're doing in science and here's one in English and

There's one in technology and so on.

And so it does look like it's happening within subject boundaries.

And therefore, there might be a bit of interdisciplinarity going on there, but it is still sort of it's going to be seen by the kids as a as a science project or as an art project.

And just to explain where I'm coming from with this question, like like you, I believe in the value of a big education.

And I seem to have alighted on this question or rather a single sentence here.

which has just been going around my head for about the last year or so, which is simply that there is more to human development than learning about subjects.

Which is another way of describing, you know, head, heart, hand.

But when you look at a school timetable, it's just all subject.

Literally, the whole concept of a school timetable is that everything is subject-based learning.

There's art and then P and then music and what have you.

And the work that I've done in the past is to carve out curriculum time in the school week that is not that, that it's something else.

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