Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
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 ...
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...
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...
…..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...
Pedagogical theory is not only technical but cultural, ideological and political. If it is to have any impact, it must be self-consciously all of these. So wrot...
This is the third 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 o...
Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. See Part 1 here. So, what ought the more sensible and, I would hope, somewhat more progressive, amongst us in education be look...