Shifting the Old Order of Things in Education
Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...
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Chomsky: Right and Wrong on Education
In the video, Chomsky speaks on three critical questions: on the purpose of education, on the role and place of technology in education, and on the conflicting ...
Is digital pedagogy a meaningful construct?
Does the term ‘digital pedagogy’ have any validity? It depends, of course, upon the assumptions we make about pedagogy generally and therefore on the definition...
What is a good teacher today? [part 2]
This is the second part of a 2-part post – read Part 1 here. What does it mean to be a teacher today? What does it mean to teach? In an age where learners...
What is a good teacher today [part 1]
This is the first part of a 2-part post – there is a link to part 2 at the end of this post. Teachers, we are told, make or break an education system. McK...
Directive Pedagogy: Freire’s Blind Spot?
In an old post (sadly, along with his great blog Borderland no longer available online, it seems), Doug Noon wrote about a short piece by Paulo Friere called Th...