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Columba Learning:
Giving a Voice to South Africa’s Youth

Posted on September 1, 2016 by John Connell

I have visited South Africa many times in the past, but my most recent trip, just last month, in August 2016, has undoubtedly given me a wonderful experience th...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: Seymour Papert, Mindstorms, Logo & EdTech

Posted on August 1, 2016 by John Connell

This is the fourth 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 ...

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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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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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Columba Leadership: inspiring South Africa’s leaders of tomorrow

Posted on July 3, 2016 by John Connell

In just a few weeks from now, in August, I have the great pleasure, and no little honour, of travelling to South Africa, a country that I have visited often, an...

Creativity/History/Learning/Pedagogy/Society/Teaching

The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner

Posted on May 15, 2016 by John Connell

The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...

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Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...

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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...

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Shifting the Old Order of Things in Education

Posted on July 20, 2015 by John Connell

Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...

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