Directive Pedagogy: Freire’s Blind Spot?
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...
Category: People
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...
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...
Knowable Networked Communities
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...
Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates
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...
Education Fast Forward: from learner voice to emerging leaders
Almost everyone involved in education agrees that leadership is important. That, however, is where agreement ends and debate begins. Beyond that point, we cross...
Has the UN’s Obsession with Primary Education Backfired?
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...