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Education: not a fixed abstraction

Posted on September 15, 2013 by John Connell

In his book The Long Revolution, in a chapter on ‘Education and Society’, Williams wrote:  …we speak sometimes as if education were...

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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...

Learning/Personal/Politics/Research

The Dictatorship of No Alternative

Posted on September 10, 2013 by John Connell

‘The dictatorship of no alternative’ is a phrase used by Brazilian social and political commentator (and politician) Roberto Mangabeira Unger. He ar...

Culture/History/People/Politics/Society

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...

Media/Politics/Society

Don’t Diss Media Studies

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

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...

Culture/Politics/Society/Technology

Human Capacity

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

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 ...

Learning/Politics/Society/Technology/Writing

Good and Bad eLearning

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

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...

History/Learning/Philosophy/Politics

Echoes of Education Debates Past

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

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...

Learning/Politics/Society

Panjandrums and their Playground

Posted on September 8, 2013 by John Connell

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...

Creativity/Learning/Politics/Science/Society/Teaching

University as Public Currency

Posted on January 6, 2013 by John Connell

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...

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