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: Politics
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 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...
Don’t Diss Media Studies
Neil Postman, of Teaching As A Subversive Activity fame, noted in a talk uploaded to Youtube: .…if we had in this country serious.…media lite...
Human Capacity
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, we have ...
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...
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...
Panjandrums and their Playground
Let’s pretend for a moment that the formal education system has been designed and established to produce independent thinkers, people who, at the end of 10 or 1...
University as Public Currency
A university is not a scientific hothouse with some frills around the edges – such as the humanities – generating off-the-peg ideas for business to patent and c...