8. Imagine if he fell! (What would
the other mothers think?!)
9. Loosing freedom and becoming embarrassed…
t
• http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_p
• Reinforces the content of the ‘Scientific
American Mind’ Clarcs Pack content.
• http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on_creati
• Creativity, Embarrassment and Fear
10. Blatchford
Blatchford (1999) “Prevalence of a negative
view about breaktime in schools leading to
more deliberate management and
supervision of breaktimes, and a reduction
in their duration”
11. • Elton Committee of Enquiry into Discipline
in Schools (DES, 1989) Identified
lunchbreak as ‘the biggest behaviour-
related problem that staff face’. Cited in
Blatchford, 1999 p. 103)
12. • Opies (1969) Cited in Blatchford 1999 p.
114/5 “ If children’s games are tamed and
made part of the school curricula, if waste-
lands are turned into playing fields for the
benefits of those who conform and ape
their elders, if children are given the idea
that they cannot enjoy themselves without
being provided with the ‘proper’ equipment
13. And…
• “… We need to blame only ourselves
when we produce a generation who have
lost their dignity, who are dissatisfied, and
who descend for their sport to the easy
excitement of rioting, or pilfering, or
vandalism”.
14. The ‘Solution’ Blatchford 1999
1. Better descriptive information on the meaning
and value of pupils’ breaktime experiences.
2. More pupil involvement in decision making
3. More active role in sensitively facilitating
breaktime activities
4. A moral context for breaktime activities and
social relations at primary and secondary level.
