• 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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  • 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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