A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in New York meeting people involved in education. The result of what I found is described in my latest LKMCo post here: What If Everything You Thought About Education Was… Read More ›
Randoms
Rationalising The Blogging
“Have nothing in your house that you do not believe to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” – William Morris Blogging can be fun but exhausting. With upcoming work schedule changes it’s time for me to rationalise. So the plan… Read More ›
Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
Just read the marvellous 2011 essay from Mark Edmundson “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” about the purpose of education, especially a degree. There are many wonderful parts, in particular this on why we should read a… Read More ›
Amazing New Books: May
Once a month I get a series of “new book” lists from Publishers. I usually write out a little list of what I want and then I store them up until I have some free time (and/or until the library… Read More ›
What Sosis Can Teach About School Ethos
I am currently re-reading Jonathan Haidt’s A Righteous Mind. The book considers why people on opposing sides of the political spectrum fail to see one another’s point, and also why they tend to interpret evidence favourably toward their own views. An example… Read More ›
Things I Said About Abortion & Faceless Education Secretaries
This week I wrote a piece for The New Humanist about attending anti-abortion rally in Missouri. This is the first published piece I’ve written as an adult about anything other than education. Though it is still about learning. I attended… Read More ›
Why Teachers Leave
Last month the excellent @edutronic_net #blogsync topic for education bloggers was: “Why do teachers leave?” As someone who recently ‘left’ teaching (at least temporarily) I wanted to take longer to answer this question than allowed by the group so I didn’t… Read More ›
Nothing More Important
I wrote a piece for the Guardian’s Education supplement this week. It’s about the welfare reforms. While we in education have rightly focused on our own battles – Ofsted, the GCSE Fiasco, curriculum, budgets, free schools, academies – and though there… Read More ›
The Easter 2013: “Well Worth a Twitter Follow” Education List
Twitter is as alive as ever with the chat of those in education – and it’s great. Once you’re comfortable on Twitter you will soon end up with a crowd suited to your own tastes. For me, it’s almost entirely… Read More ›
Outwitted
I wrote an article for LKMCo today about Gove’s Daily Mail outburst and his misunderstandings about education research. At the end I suggested that instead of drawing dividing lines in education we should draw all-encompassing circles that take in all… Read More ›
