Julia Huber
Researcher
Julia joined Demos as a researcher in June 2002. Her main research interests are in the area of demography, social change and learning. She is leading Demos' work on the ageing society and her Demos publications in this area include; together with Paul Skidmore The New Old: Why the baby boomers won't be pensioned off (2003); and together with James Harkin Eternal Youths: How the baby boomers are having their time...
at 11:42am
on Wednesday, 5th October 2005
No, this time it's not about German politics (although one could reasonably argue that, given how the leaders of the main German parties are behaving at the moment, they seem pretty 'unteachable'), it's actually about the new Channel 4 TV series The Unteachables. The programme brought together a group of young people with serious attendance and behavioural problems in school to take part for five months in an educational project intended on helping them find their way back into learning and education. During the project the children were supported by a group of teachers, academics, psychologists and youth workers.
I found it extremely interesting viewing and the programme does, I think, raise some very important questions. Why do some children disengage from mainstream education? How is it possible to (re-)engage these children? What is 'good' teaching? And finally, I was of course very excited to find that one of the youth workers on the programme is someone I know from my work at KidsCompany. An organisation that is, in a different way, trying to engage with those same children.
No, this time it's not about German politics (although one could reasonably argue that, given how the leaders of the main German parties are behaving at the moment, they seem pretty 'unteachable'), it's actually about the new Channel 4 TV series The Unteachables. The programme brought together a group of young people with serious attendance and behavioural problems in school to take part for five months in an educational project intended on helping them find their way back into learning and education. During the project the children were supported by a group of teachers, academics, psychologists and youth workers.
I found it extremely interesting viewing and the programme does, I think, raise some very important questions. Why do some children disengage from mainstream education? How is it possible to (re-)engage these children? What is 'good' teaching? And finally, I was of course very excited to find that one of the youth workers on the programme is someone I know from my work at KidsCompany. An organisation that is, in a different way, trying to engage with those same children.
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