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True Friends of Education in Macedonia

Posted on April 14, 2017 by John Connell

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....

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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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Jerome Bruner on Pedagogy

Posted on June 9, 2016 by John Connell

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...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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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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Pedagogy before Technology?
Don’t think so….

Posted on July 3, 2015 by John Connell

There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...

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The Internet of Education Things (part 2)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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