Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement
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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Teaching Dissent
thanks to Jennifer Murawski for the photo When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedienc...
Pedagogy before Technology?
Don’t think so….
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
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...
Extending the Hidden Curriculum
I have been thinking about the thorny question of curriculum, and about how the best teachers are able to develop their understanding of the complexities of cur...