The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic
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...
I Am Learner
I am learner. Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in m...
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 ...
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...
Education Fast Forward: from learner voice to emerging leaders
Almost everyone involved in education agrees that leadership is important. That, however, is where agreement ends and debate begins. Beyond that point, we cross...
Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus – from Sierra Leone to MIT, self-taught
A perfect illustration of the I Am Learner philosophy! This has been cross-posted from my main blog at John Connell: the blog.
I Am Malala
…the most recent figures published by UNESCO in their Global Monitoring Report show that 61 million children don’t receive an education. A further 2...
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
A couple of years ago, on my personal blog, I recorded some observations (since republished on this blog after I closed my old blog) on what I saw in the bar of...
I Am Learner
I am learner. Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in m...