Sir Ken Robinson
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Sir Ken Robinson ( 4 of March 1950- 21 of August 2020)
•He was a British author.
•Speaker.
•International advisor on education.
•Professor in Art education ( Univ. of Warwick).
•Expert on education, art, creativity and innovation. •Director of the Arts in Schools Project
around U.K. ( 1985-1988)
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BIOGRAPHY
•He was born in Liverpool, he was one of seven children from a  working-class family.
•Robinson contracted polio at the age of four.
•He attended an special school due to his physical effects of polio. •His studies: Primary, grammar
school, University in English and Drama.
•PhD in Drama and Theatre Education.

Ideas on education.
•Education has to develop on three fronts.
•DIVERSITY: By offering a broad curriculum and
•encourage individualisation of the learning process. •PROMOTE: Curiosity through creativity
teaching depending in high quality teacher training and development. •FOCUS: On creativity through
alternatives didactics processes less standardised testing, giving a creative approaches to
learning.
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Standardized
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Creative
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Testimony
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJGo_g7Its •This is an example of individualisation of  the
learning process.

Equality- Diversity- Inclusion
•Legislation in U.K.
•In U.K. it is illegal to discriminate on the grounds of : Age, disability, sex, sexual
orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race or
gender reassignment. •Exist many forms of discrimination: Direct, indirect, associative and
perception. • Forms of discrimination: Harassment or bullying.
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Examples of discrimination
•https://youtu.be/C-uyB5I6WnQ
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g88Ju6nkcg
•These are two examples of discrimination.
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