Education: not a fixed abstraction
In his book The Long Revolution, in a chapter on ‘Education and Society’, Williams wrote: …we speak sometimes as if education were...
Category: Learning
Education Without Borders: Syria’s Children
Malala Yousafzai – Portrait by Jonathan Yeo The mission of A World at School is: We: make noise for education, asking leaders to raise budg...
The Flapping Windmill
[This was the paper that wrote in support of The Doctor Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Address which I gave to ASLA in Adelaide in 2008. It re-visited a n...
The Dictatorship of No Alternative
‘The dictatorship of no alternative’ is a phrase used by Brazilian social and political commentator (and politician) Roberto Mangabeira Unger. He ar...
School: Something’s Gotta Give
Something’s gotta give. The Industrial-Age model of schooling, which benefited 20th-century generations by serving as a legitimate ticket to the middle cl...
Bob Mackenzie aka RF Mackenzie
I have been delving back into the words and deeds of some of those educators who first convinced me there was more to education than schooling and more to schoo...
From ‘Radical Impossibility’ to ‘I Am Learner’
I recently re-visited a paper by Ron Burnett, President of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, entitled Learning to Learn in a Virtual World. It w...
The Maze of Academic Requirements
From an article entitled Postsecondary Education in the Changing Learning and Living Landscapes, by Yusra Laila Visser, in Learners in a Changing Learning Lands...
Learning in Abundance
So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...
Re-Framing Education
Education is a universal. It is a truism to say that, in every age throughout human history, in every society, every nation, every tribe, every empire, every cu...