Improvement magazine
Members can use this area of the site to view back issues of Improvement, the Association's quarterly magazine.
The magazine takes a detailed look at all the latest news from the Association, as well as key developments in educational improvement and children's services. Improvement also incorporates Briefings, Aspect’s regular briefings of recently-published documents in education and children’s services.
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Winter 2012
- Social pedagogy: Gabriel Eischsteller and Sylvia Holthoff on grassroots social pedagogy
- Still a long road to travel: Is education tackling institutional racism? asks Roger Kline
- Where is Gove going?: Nick Wright on the minister's words
- An uncertain future: John Steers on subject associations
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Spring 2011
- Aspect’s 2011 conference previewed
- Cuts: Why we marched: The case against the cuts
- First cut is the deepest: Roger Kline examines the effect of cuts on jobs
- Children’s services face profound changes: John Chowcat sets the ground for
the debate
- Weakening the local authority role threatens decades of progress, argues
Mike Hardacre
- Defending our pay levels and our national collective bargaining is a
professional necessity, argues Esther Pickup-Keller
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Summer 2011
- Back to the future: Nick Wright on the common school
- Mapping the new EYFS landscape: Marie Charlton and Jan Dubiel discuss the Tickell review
- Public services: The Welfare State is being atomised into a virtual free market, argues John Pearce
- Recognising children's mental powers: Ian Benson on the work of Caleb Gattegno
- Reimagining government: David Waxman on government in the age of austerity
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Autumn 2011
- Pensions, questions and answers
- A stronger specialist voice: Aspect's members decide on the union's future
- Social pedagogy: Pat Petrie and Claire Cameron introduce new writing
- School wars: Nick Wright reviews Melissa Benn's controversial book
- Two years on from Baby Peter: Roger Kline on problems and progress in social work
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Spring 2010
- Drawn from real life: Nick Wright talks to education consultant Emma Joseph, aka crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell
- Off the clock!: Flexible working advice from Nelly Takla-Wright
- Aspect Conference preview
- Too little, too late?: Dave Tucker asks if the 2009 World Trade summit provided solutions to the crises of finance and climate
- & much more
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Summer 2010
- What does the future hold?: Aspect Conference previewed
- Future use: John Pearce on our expectations for technology in education
- Succession management: Sue Harrison and Claire Dorer on a pioneering succession management pilot
- The union makes us strong: Roger Kline argues for an effective trade union voice for social work
- Education prospects: Nick Wright on what we can expect now the election is over
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Autumn 2010
- Aspect conference: reports and pictures
- Academies: Chris Waterman on government plans for the schools system
- The National College: Catherine Fitt on the training of children’s services
leaders
- What role for local authorities? Nick Wright on Michael Gove’s unfolding
plans
- Redundancy: Nelly Takla-Wright gives candid advice for those facing
redundancy
- Consultancy offers me freedom? John Pearce on going independent
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Winter 2010
- Replicating Swedish ‘free school’ reforms: Rebecca Allen summarises the research
- Discipline, order, tradition: Nick Wright reports on the White Paper
- Take Heed, Mr Gove: Chris Waterman examines the consequences of Michael Gove’s plans
- Where social class, generation and gender intersect: Ian Benson reviews psychologist Barabara Tizard’s life story
- The new kinds of smart: David Waxman on how the science of learnable intelligence is changing education.
- Amazing Teacher: What made a county adviser write a book and how did an Aspect course prove a catalyst for change?
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Spring 2009
- Leading without power: Stirling's director of children's services David Cameron on your role in change
- Supply side revolution: How Conservative education policy is evolving
- Leading from the frontline: Aspect in a new national skills and training programme for the youth service workforce
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Summer 2009
- Poetry, policy and pedagogy: The children's laureate Michael Rosen in conversation
- Pulled in two directions: How Liberal Democrat education policy is evolving
- ECM and school improvement professionals: Highlighting the impact of the ECM agenda
- Pedagogy in the early years: Lesley Staggs on improving outcomes for young children
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Autumn 2009
- Aspect in Conference: John Chowcat on the challenges that face the union plus conference reports and pictures
- Under the spotlight: Aspect's conference analysed the new education white paper. Nick Wright reports
- Achieving a voice: Roger Kline on social workers' rights
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Winter 2009
- Speaking, listening, learning: Anita Kerwin-Nye talks to Clive Robson on the work of the Communication Trust
- Between a rock and a hard place: Roger Kline analyses the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force
- Climate change: Nick Wright on a role for trade unions
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