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 represents a sort of hidden curriculum of contemporary belief,…
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 seems to be why several critics have been lukewarm about the…
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 below: The mountain or the summit is a troubling…
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 it won’t be the last. It…
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 about her personal experience of walking…
This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below: It was taken as read in its first years of life in the late 1960s that PESGB’s raison d’être was teacher education. This was…
This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below: *** You wouldn’t expect a blog on the PESGB website to contain a poem but why not, if that’s a way of…
This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below: *** This is the fourth post in a PESGB Blog series focussed on educational assessment and the UK Government’s handling of England’s national examinations…
This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below: *** This is the third post in a PESGB Blog series focussed on educational assessment and the UK Government’s handling of England’s national examinations…
This blog post is available as a PDF here, and as an audiotrack below: **** The 1995 Japanese anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (NGE) takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where humanity has been pushed to near extinction. Before…
The Conservative Government defends its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as a “sensible package of measures,” justly tough on the worst violent offenders – especially those who commit violent and-or sexual crimes against women. Critics say it’s an authoritarian…
*** This is the second post in a PESGB Blog series focussed on educational assessment and the UK Government’s handling of England’s 2020 national exams (GCSEs and A Levels) in the wake of Covid-19. *** The grades calculated in…