Teaching the World
Professor Bob Moon, Professor of Education at The Open University in the UK, penned a piece in 2010 for the Commonwealth of Learning site entitled: Time for Ra...
Category: Learning
Good and Bad eLearning
It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the &l...
Peer Matching for Learning
Steve Wheeler, a while back, highlighted one of Ivan Illich’s ideas from Deschooling Society: peer-matching: The operation of a peer-matching network...
Echoes of Education Debates Past
It is no surprise, of course, that so many debates we hear in education today are themselves echoes from past arguments. Two books, one from the end of the 19th...
Education’s Moment of Interplay
In The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, published almost half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan observed that the world he lived in was changing s...
Disputation and Debate in Education
Disputes and controversies and disagreements abound in every sphere of human knowledge and activity. That is the very nature of human discourse. The world would...
Teaching: A Doctoral Profession?
A few years ago, Don Ledingham wrote about the prospects of achieving a ‘doctoral profession’ in Scottish teaching. Whether his enthusiasm for a doctoral teachi...
Teacher-Student Relationship
David Brooks, in his popular book, The Social Animal, expounds on education, and has a few interesting things to say, mainly in the American context (although u...
Extending the Hidden Curriculum
I have been thinking about the thorny question of curriculum, and about how the best teachers are able to develop their understanding of the complexities of cur...
Illich & Convivial Education
Ivan Illich used the phrase Tools for Conviviality as the title of one of his books. It is a powerful book with a trenchant set of messages, messages I have fou...