Welcome to the school whose teachers vow to approach every child with “unconditional positive regard” in an attempt to really understand each child as an individual and to rethink punishment as a form of discipline.
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According to recent government research, two-thirds of children aged 10 to 17 and a quarter of 6-9 year-olds consume energy drinks - drinks which contain 60% more calories and 65% more sugar than normal soft drinks...and that's not mentioning the caffeine. So should they be banned?
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Former professional footballer Richard Eckersley talks to ThoughtBox Director Rachel Musson about his move from footballer to shopkeeper in Devon - and how he's never been happier.
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Ocean Sole is an ocean conservation group located in Kenya who turn flip-flop pollution into art and functional products to promote the oceans. Is this a positive way to address our waste problems?
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Our education systems only test and reward a very limited intelligence, and so we are constantly seeing intelligent children failing tests designed to test a different kind of intelligence, and thus being branded as failures.
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How much do you know about what happens underneath the soil surrounding trees? Did you know that trees can talk, that they share information with each other, even help each other when they are sick?
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What is joy? As an emotion it is hard to explain, yet we all know how it feels. Joy comes from something as small as an ice-cream to something as magnificent as a waterfall or rainbow….
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As 'conker' and 'kingfisher' disappear from English dictionaries in favour of 'broadband' and 'download', we ask the question - what value should we be putting on our words?
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The UK appointed a Minister for Loneliness last week - amidst concerns of a growing 'epidemic of loneliness' sweeping the UK. If this is the case, what is going wrong in our society to cause people to feel so lonely?
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This intriguing little RSA Short (4 mins) examines the myth of responsibility, revealing a kind of empathy that can be a revolutionary force for good. Are we wholly responsible for our actions?
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Did you know that there are 'naked' alternatives to every plastic bottle or plastic thing in your shower and bathroom? If you haven't already started to question the amount of throw-away plastic cluttering your shower, now is the time.
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The baobab tree is one of the most majestic trees on earth. Capable of living for thousands of years, these trees can grow as wide as a bus is long and hold up to 120,000 litres of water in their trunks and they predate both humankind and the splitting of continents. So why is it that they are now struggling to survive?
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Did you know that if bees were to disappear from the face of the earth, humans would have just 4 years left to live. Why? In brief, they pollinate 70 of the roughly 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world.
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This weekend sees the first ever TED conference inside a refugee camp, being held at Kakuma Camp in Kenya, This conference aims to offer a different lens into the reality of life as a refugee, away from the images of devastation and suffering, and towards stories of resilience, of contribution, of creativity.
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This is just one of the questions that we are asking in our module on Faith? So what do you think it means? What does it mean to "have faith"? Does this always need to be a religious idea? What does it mean if you have no faith?
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How much do you know about how your food is grown? What are some of the environmental and health impacts of using pesticides to grow crops? What does 'organic' actually mean?
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After Blue Planet 2, the UK has taken a huge interest in the ocean and our relationship to it. And quite right too.
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Understanding that things are not as 'glossy' as they seem is an important part of critical thinking, and asking questions - rather than just accepting information - helps us all to move towards understanding even just a little bit more of the story.
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This was one of the questions discussed by ThoughtBox during an event at Dartington's Centre for Social Justice & Innovation when exploring how to support refugees coming into our communities. So what do you think makes something feel like 'home'?
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Being a part of the 'system' means you know yourself what is and isn't working and have a strong voice to share when it comes to what should change. So what do you think? What could our education systems look like in the future (or rather, what should they look like)?
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