Education: confronting the confusion of tongues
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...
Tag: ideology
Jerome Bruner on Pedagogy
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...
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...
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...