What every teacher knows instinctively…
…that teaching is not just complex, it is very complex! Teaching involves many tangibles, but far more intangibles. There is just so much in the whole com...
Tag: education
The Penny University
The coffeehouse was a place for like-minded scholars to congregate, to read, as well as to learn from and to debate with each other, but it was emphatically not...
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...
Learning in Abundance
So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...
Human Capacity
Education is a universal. It is a truism to say that, in every age throughout human history, in every society, every nation, every tribe, every empire, we have ...
Good and Bad eLearning
It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the &l...
Disputation and Debate in Education
Disputes and controversies and disagreements abound in every sphere of human knowledge and activity. That is the very nature of human discourse. The world would...
Our Threatened World?
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...
Illich & Convivial Education
Ivan Illich used the phrase Tools for Conviviality as the title of one of his books. It is a powerful book with a trenchant set of messages, messages I have fou...
Closed and Open Education
When you set out to educate a society in which information is scarce and in which all the key sources of information are controlled by an elite, the most effici...