C.E. Jottings

Evidence-based practice & education (Part 1)

How do we know conductive education works? For that matter, how do we know anything, anyone, does in education "works"? Serendipity this week: - I was asked (by Andrew Brereton of Snowdrop), in a Comment to a previous posting here, the entirely reasonable question, "Can CE provide any independent evidence that it is effective?" - Andrew Sutton posted a news item "Complementary Medicine Coup for Island" first carried in the Isle of Wight County Press of a new partnership between... Read more →

Conductive Education Knols

A Knol is a unit of knowledge, according to the good people at Google, who dreamed it up. A Knol is also an authoritative article about a specific topic. A moment ago, a search on Google's Knol homepage generated two Knols about conductive education. 1. "Conductive Education. History, Definition and Basic Concepts" by Rony Schenker, Professional Director, Head of Conductive Education Studies, Tsad Kadima, The Association for Conductive Education in Israel. 2. "Conductive Education. Theoretical Background" by Gabor Fellner, Headteacher,... Read more →

Things that pop up while Googling

I was actually checking on the weather forecast. I noticed that the Google Blog Search tool hadn't up-dated itself and set off poking about to find out why. Which explains how I came across this charity commission adjudication into the affairs of the Cerebral Palsy Children's Charity, apparently posted on 28 July 2008, but looks dated. (There's a posting on the Charity Commission website too but undated). This led me to "brainpalsy.com" which appears to be a blog but lacks... Read more →