• Michael Jackson, Mark Fisher, and the...

    Street scene: a mural portrait of Michael Jackson - the left side of his face an early, the right side a late, MJ - covers the wall of a corner building.

    27th November 2022

    This post is - aptly, given its concerns - available as an audiofile here, and to download as a PDF here.   ***   Readers of my posts will know that I have an attachment to the pedagogy...
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  • Book Review: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing...

    Image of front cover of the reviewed book, Knowing from the Inside, edited by Tim Ingold

    27th November 2022

    This review is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   Book Review: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing from the Inside: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments with Matters of Pedagogy (Bloomsbury...
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  • Civil Liberties & the Need for Lordean...

    A crowd of protestors with fists clenched and raised in solidarity

    10th October 2022

    This post is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   The British government doesn’t want us talking about race. More precisely: it doesn’t want us talking about structural and...
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  • Thinking or thinking well? An antidote...

    Image of lightbulb against a black background. Bulb is mirrored as it lies across the screen, fitting to the left, bulb and filament to the right

    3rd October 2022

    This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   ***   Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time...
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  • Mindfulness Education and the Divided...

    Image of brain, seen from above, divided in two; right side of the brain is multicoloured, in the left are mathematical equations; colours exceed the line of the image, the effect is of paint splashes on the page.

    13th September 2022

    This post can be downloaded as a PDF here.   *** Mindfulness has become something of a boom industry over the last few decades thanks largely to the work of Kabat-Zinn (1990) who developed a...
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  • Bodybildung (Part I)

    13th July 2022

      This post is available as a PDF here. ***   Healthy body, healthy mind isn’t a modern but an ancient axiom. In Plato, for canonical example, bodily discipline is a crucial strand of...
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  • A Socialist in Disneyland

    20th June 2022

    This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   Disneyland Paris celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Opened as ‘EuroDisney’ in 1992, the park is the...
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  • Book Review: Jana Mohr Lone, Seen and...

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    10th June 2022

    A written interview with author Jana Mohr Lone is available here.   What might we learn from children if we genuinely listened to them? How could they benefit if we did? Such are the key...
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  • Author interview: Jana Mohr Lone, Seen...

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    10th June 2022

      Why did you decide to write Seen and Not Heard? My motivation for writing Seen and Not Heard came from thinking about all I’ve learned from children in 25 years of conversations about...
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  • A School for Thought II: Thinking &...

    30th May 2022

    This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   In a previous post I worried about the lack of real thinking in our schools. A couple of weeks...
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  • What is the meaning of education in a...

    16th May 2022

    This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   As pandemic restrictions are lifted in England and schools and work life begin to return to more of a...
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  • The Ukraine Conflict: The Spectre of...

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    5th April 2022

    This post is available to download here. ***   As I watch in horror the barbarity of the Ukrainian conflict unfold, I am reminded of the ineluctable charm of the notion of ‘fixed’...
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