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Careering towards a curriculum crash?

On December 4, 2019 By Becky Allen17 Comments

This is an approximate transcript of the talk that Ben White and Becky Allen gave at researchED Kent on Saturday 30th November, 2019. It is a little light on references and grammatically requires improvement - sorry… we’ll try to tidy it up soon! I (Ben) am not sure if it's possible to win teaching. For …

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