You won’t be discovering new myths in this article by James Gray if you have been reading this blog for a while, still it’s a great summary connected to the situation in Britain and the great difficulty to explain to people that learning styles and other brain gyms or pseudoscience…

A quote:

“In Britain debate about education, perhaps more than any other area of policy, is bad-tempered and polarised. Hard evidence – where it exists at all – is often overlooked in favour of hyperbole and grandstanding. When it comes to neuromyths in the classroom, neat political divisions no longer apply – ministers from left and right, teaching unions and education pressure groups have all done their bit to promote them. And with each successive education secretary keen to establish a permanent legacy, often leaving teachers bewildered by the changes thrust upon them, the distinction between science and wishful thinking has become blurred. The neuro-realists may now be fighting back, but they have years of myth and misinformation to undo.”