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Education: confronting the confusion of tongues

Posted on July 21, 2016 by John Connell

I’m sure that my Christian and Jewish friends see it differently, but from my secular and humanist perspective, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel i...

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Play, Neoteny & Convivial Learning

Posted on July 17, 2016 by John Connell

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...

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Jerome Bruner on Pedagogy

Posted on June 9, 2016 by John Connell

Pedagogical theory is not only technical but cultural, ideological and political. If it is to have any impact, it must be self-consciously all of these. So wrot...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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Fiction, Non-Fiction and Facts

Posted on August 28, 2015 by John Connell

  BBC Radio Four offers a number of fine programmes about books, writing and reading. I regularly enjoy A Good Read in which the host and two guests each s...

Books/Culture/Internet/Learning/Politics/Social Technology/Society

Hyperbole and Bad Faith

Posted on July 7, 2015 by John Connell

Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...

Creativity/Learning/Personal/Politics

PISA’s Passive Aggressive Assault on Education

Posted on June 17, 2014 by John Connell

Gary Younge wrote in a recent Guardian article about the global economy’s swift, and harsh, response to the election of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in B...

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Scottish Open Education Declaration

Posted on March 26, 2014 by John Connell

Open education can promote knowledge transfer while at the same time enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting social inclusion, and creating a culture o...

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Dissent and Disloyalty

Posted on October 6, 2013 by John Connell

The great American commentator, Edward Murrow, that country’s voice of integrity through the Second World War and beyond,  wrote some words that come to m...

People/Politics/Teaching

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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