• Book Review: Richard Pring, Education,...

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    24th March 2022

    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,...
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  • Philosophy as Dialogue & as Gift:...

    5th March 2022

    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”...
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  • Orwell: On Writing Clearly

    10th February 2022

    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,...
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  • Thoughtwashing: A Modern Curse?

    26th January 2022

    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...
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  • A School for Thought

    10th January 2022

    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,...
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  • The Horrifying Real at the Mountains of...

    23rd December 2021

      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...
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  • Education, Social Reforms and...

    15th December 2021

      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...
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  • Consciousness, Scientific Materialism...

    8th November 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here and as an audio recording below:     Like individualism and the belief in free will, the materialist worldview derived from mainstream science...
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  • Lesson's from DaCosta's Candyman*

    23rd October 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below:      Nia DaCosta’s Candyman reboot-cum-sequel has gained attention for its political didacticism, and this...
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  • The Horrifying Real at the Mountains of...

    10th October 2021

    A Response to Jamieson’s ‘Rethinking the Hard Path of Education as We Emerge from Covid-19’   This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording...
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  • On the PESGB Annual Conference 2021

    25th September 2021

      This post is available as a PDF here, and an audio recording below:     The first online PESGB Annual Conference took place on September 3-5 2021. Given its success, I am sure...
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  • Rethinking the Hard Path of Education...

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    5th July 2021

      This post is available as a PDF here, and an audio recording below:     Nan Shepherd, best known for her novel The Living Mountain, was a Scottish novelist and poet who wrote...
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