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Kennys Bookshop: “a world of its own, and a key to worlds unknown”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

I love bookshops. I love all kinds of bookshops but I have a special liking for stores that sell secondhand books. I do buy a lot of new books, from both physic...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...

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Fiction, Non-Fiction and Facts

Posted on August 28, 2015 by John Connell

BBC Radio Four offers a number of fine programmes about books, writing and reading. I regularly enjoy A Good Read in which the host and two guests each s...

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Hyperbole and Bad Faith

Posted on July 7, 2015 by John Connell

Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...

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Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!

Posted on February 17, 2015 by John Connell

Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...

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Post Literacy Post-Haste

Posted on February 15, 2015 by John Connell

Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: Illich’s Flawed Classics

Posted on February 10, 2015 by John Connell

This is the second in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...

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Books that made me an educator: “Letter to a Teacher: the School of Barbiana”

Posted on February 9, 2015 by John Connell

This is the first of an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...