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Bernard Andrews
Bernard Andrews

Bernard Andrews is a secondary school philosophy teacher in Spain.

Having trained as an RE teacher, Bernard went on to work in pupil referal units with excluded students or those in danger of being excluded before settling in Spain. 

All articles by Bernard Andrews
How do we define ‘learning’ - and why does it matter?
Most people would agree there is more to learning than performance on tests, but we need to formalise that definition to make sure it drives policy and practice, says Bernard Andrews
General
17 December 2025
Hands making lightbulb jigsaw
What’s ‘love’ got to do with teaching?
Do you have to like your students, or even ‘love’ them, to be a good teacher? Bernard Andrews goes on the hunt for a definition of pedagogical love
General
18 June 2025
Love teaching bird on hippo
‘Teaching is not a craft - but neither is it a science’
It involves incredible feats of creativity and technical know-how, but can educating really be described as an art or a craft? Bernard Andrews explores
General
9 January 2025
Artist painting picture of classroom
School accountability: should we let the courts decide?
We need a court of education to judge schools, says Bernard Andrews – Ofsted, despite its tinkering, will never work
6 May 2019
When Plato met Damian Hinds...
Socrates has quit education for good – now his pupil steps up to ask the education secretary about teacher ‘freedom’
21 November 2018
When Socrates met a multi-academy trust CEO...
What if, after a bad Ofsted rating, Socrates had an appointment with a MAT? A philosophy teacher imagines the scene...
3 November 2018