I am fairly certain that I could use the same scientific rigour, applied to justify many recent educational reforms, to prove that my class learn better whilst standing on their heads.
The increased blood flow to the brain would provide an obvious explanation, and if I had the passion to make it part of a regime I could easily provide statistically credible proof.
I guess the last ingredient to make it stick would be a link to a ‘Head Pillow’ provider with dodgy financial backing.
There is just so much nonsense going on at the moment. In an article written earlier this year I stated that:
There is certainly room for a scientific approach to teaching and learning but it lies at a more fundamental level, where raw building blocks of learning are created and begin to interact.
