To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Practical advice for teachers
JOHN GREEN recommends a useful how-to guide for teaching children with special needs, aimed at those working in education
SOLIDARITY: Parents, activists and special needs assistants protest outside the Department of Education in Dublin, to call for enough school places to be provided for children with additional needs to meet the demand, as many have been left without a place ahead of the coming academic year, August 23, 2024.
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
The SEN handbook – how to do SEN the right way
Greg Higman, Self published, £12.99
GREG HIGMAN has been a teacher with a great deal of experience in teaching children with Special Educational Needs and in advising others.
His book is a how-to guide in approaching this complex subject. It is, however, aimed at those working in education rather than the general public.
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