(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The datafication of education through digital technologies is rapidly advancing (Gulson et al., 2022; Sellar & Thompson, 2016). In this blog, I argue that educational subjects, such as teachers and learners,…
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth Book cover for Kingsnorth (2025). Taken from the Particular Books catalogue. Particular Books, 2025. ISBN: 9780241788400, Hbk. ISBN: 9781837310975, Pbk. ISBN: 9781837310982, eBook. RRP: £25.00 / £12.99, 304pp. Paul…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The UK government has recently announced its intention to ban under-16s from using major social media platforms. Many of the details are still pending, but the proposed policy appears to go…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Introduction True Detective is a drama series that first aired on HBO in 2014. This article will focus on the first season, which starred Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as joint leads.…
(Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by Joseph Severn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Education should instil a certain emptiness in students. It needs to be a hunger-inducing emptiness…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) But sometimes, on the contrary, it is necessary to make holes, to introduce voids and white spaces, to rarify the image, by suppressing many things that have been added to make…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) There are two ways of reading a book. You can read it to understand what the author says with it. Or you can read it to see what you can do…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It was still dark when I got on the train to Oxford. Still half asleep, my eyes wouldn’t stay open. As it happens when I am moody for a lack of…
In the lead up to to the 61st annual PESGB conference, New College, University of Oxford, Friday 27th March – Sunday 29th March 2026, below are the winners of the photo competition from last year’s event: From Naoko Saito (Kyoto…
(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It is almost a tautology to describe the Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (henceforth, SEND) system in England as in crisis. For many SEND Coordinators (SENDCos), waiting for the Labour government’s…
(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Society for Adam Smith functions like a mirror, and the learning process takes place within it socially, interactively. As he says in The…
(The Muir portrait, circa 1800, unknown author. Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The context in which Adam Smith was working is important for understanding his view that ‘every man becomes in some measure a merchant’…