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Kennys Bookshop: “a world of its own, and a key to worlds unknown”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

I love bookshops. I love all kinds of bookshops but I have a special liking for stores that sell secondhand books. I do buy a lot of new books, from both physic...

Books/Culture/Learning/Personal/Reading/Society/Teaching/Writing

Books That Made Me An Educator: Illich’s Flawed Classics

Posted on February 10, 2015 by John Connell

This is the second 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 ...

Creativity/Culture

The Obligation to Daydream

Posted on October 20, 2013 by John Connell

Neil Gaiman, in the Guardian Review, 19 October 2013: Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in A...

Culture/Society/Technology

Our Threatened World?

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

We are a jaded lot, we in our world – our threatened world. We are good for irony and even cynicism. Some words and ideas we hardly use, so worn out have they b...