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The Guardian Takes Sugata Mitra to Task…

Posted on July 4, 2016 by John Connell

…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...

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Education: an ever-swirling vortex of ideas

Posted on April 13, 2016 by John Connell

Education is a debate! It is (as I wrote here in 2013): …an intense and constant battleground of crossed swords, conflict and contention… And long m...

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Post Literacy Post-Haste

Posted on February 15, 2015 by John Connell

Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...

Learning/People/Reading/Research/Society

Reading in the Mobile Era

Posted on August 22, 2014 by John Connell

I have been reading through the findings of a great report published earlier this year by UNESCO: Reading in the Mobile Era. I am working on a longer post on mo...

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Teacher Education in the Developing World

Posted on December 2, 2013 by John Connell

A philanthropic trust based here in Edinburgh has asked me to undertake a short term research project and feasibility study to examine: the challenges currently...

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What every teacher knows instinctively…

Posted on October 19, 2013 by John Connell

…that teaching is not just complex, it is very complex! Teaching involves many tangibles, but far more intangibles. There is just so much in the whole com...

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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...

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Money for Antique Rope

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

Here is the rub. Reading 90 per cent of academic tomes is worse than eating a cardboard sandwich: disgusting to look at and impossible to chew. Decent style and...

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