True Friends of Education in Macedonia
Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
This is the fourth 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 ...
A number of years ago, I gave a talk entitled ‘The Joy of Learning’ to the Australian College of Educators in the impressive setting of Geelong Coll...
…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...
In just a few weeks from now, in August, I have the great pleasure, and no little honour, of travelling to South Africa, a country that I have visited often, an...
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
Education is a debate! It is (as I wrote here in 2013): …an intense and constant battleground of crossed swords, conflict and contention… And long m...
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...
The world has already moved beyond the point where we need professional mediation to create, for example, a polished piece of video. Anyone today can choose to ...