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Curiosity is the driving force behind the advancement of humankind – but it is stifled in our classrooms, buried under the weight of teacher workload and accountability. If we want to instil a joy of learning, we need to give pupils the space to let their natural curiosity roam free, writes Alistair McConville

Pupils took delight in coaching their deputy head, Alistair McConville, to pass his exam. Now, a teachers-as-learners revolution has been sparked in the staffroom...

A new book about creativity by a neuroscientist and a composer will make teachers despair at the current school environment

An impulsive decision to learn a new subject has proved inspirational for this teacher, allowing him to appreciate things from the other side of the classroom

As students flee modern foreign languages in droves, Alistair McConville says that we should stop talking about the earning potential of subjects and instead appeal to pupils’ youthful sense of social empathy – especially at a time of political upheaval around the world