Pete Dale – The Conversation

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April 25, 2017

How electro and techno could help to revolutionise school music lessons

Pete Dale, Manchester Metropolitan University

When the classroom is your dance floor.

Sex Pistols in the Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, 1977. Koen Suyk; Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO)

June 23, 2016

Year zero for British punk was 1976 – but there had long been anarchy in the USA

Pete Dale, Manchester Metropolitan University

Did the Sex Pistols invent punk rock or did they pick up on something happening in New York for years?

Increasing boys’ confidence by letting them focus on something they want to do offers a strategy to reengage them with school. Shutterstock

April 6, 2014

Do boys dislike school? Or just what they’re learning?

Garth Stahl, University of South Australia and Pete Dale, Manchester Metropolitan University

Since the 1970s, a panic about “disaffected” boys underachieving in formal schooling has gripped Western society. Despite efforts in Australia like Boys: Getting It Right and the UK Raising Boys Achievement…

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