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 questions that Jana Mohr Lone…
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 their philosophical questions and ideas. Although I…
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 later, Freya and…
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 pre-pandemic state it seems pertinent…
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’ cultural identity. In particular, what is being…
Richard Pring has made a useful and important contribution to the discussion on the relationship between political policy and philosophical development in relation to education in his new book, Education, Social Reform and Philosophical Development. In terms of structure, the…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. This post was written collaboratively by Oli Belas, John White, & the students who took the “Introduction to Educational Philosophy” module (autumn/winter 2021) *** I coordinate a second-year…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below: **** George Orwell (1946) once famously wrote that good prose should be like a window-pane, transparent to the reader and reflecting meaning…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below: Within philosophy classrooms in universities there is a practice which we have termed ‘thoughtwashing’. We can usefully think of thoughtwashing as acting in a…
This post is available for download as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below: I’ve been lucky enough to persuade my school’s senior management to let me set up something called, portentously enough, School for Thought, to…
This post is available to read offline as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below. **** Last time, I proposed that sending students into the mountains as a metaphor for their educational journey might yield a Lovecraftian…
This post can be downloaded and read as a PDF here. This post offers a synopsis of Richard Pring’s new book, Purpose of the book, Education, Social Reform and Philosophical Development: Evidence from the Past, Principles for the…