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Directive Pedagogy: Freire’s Blind Spot?

Posted on September 26, 2013 by John Connell

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...

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Values for Today’s Education

Posted on September 21, 2013 by John Connell

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privileges of a...

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Education Without Borders: Syria’s Children

Posted on September 11, 2013 by John Connell

Malala Yousafzai – Portrait by Jonathan Yeo The mission of A World at School is: We: make noise for education, asking leaders to raise budg...

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The Flapping Windmill

Posted on September 10, 2013 by John Connell

[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...

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Egypt’s Youth Breaking Conservative Bounds

Posted on September 10, 2013 by John Connell

On a pre-Arab-Spring trip to Egypt, I came across a very interesting example of how people are using social technologies to undermine the stifling conventions o...

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Bob Mackenzie aka RF Mackenzie

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

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...

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Knowable Networked Communities

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

Raymond Williams, in The Country and the City, pondered the change in attitudes in English society, as portrayed in the literature of that country produced betw...

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Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates

Posted on January 8, 2013 by John Connell

Howard Gardner, speaking in a video on the DML Central site: I don’t believe for a moment in technological determinism. I believe any technology can be used ben...

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Education Fast Forward: from learner voice to emerging leaders

Posted on December 19, 2012 by John Connell

Almost everyone involved in education agrees that leadership is important. That, however, is where agreement ends and debate begins. Beyond that point, we cross...

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Has the UN’s Obsession with Primary Education Backfired?

Posted on November 26, 2012 by John Connell

In the light of my recent post, about the I Am Malala campaign, it was interesting to come across the intelligent and thoughtful article in this month’s P...

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