(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) The UK government has recently announced its intention to ban under-16s from using major social media platforms. Many of the details are still pending, but the proposed policy appears to go…
Francisco Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (1799). With the support of a small grant from the PESGB, I recently attended the Association for Moral Education’s annual conference, hosted by Tampere University in Finland. I presented a poster highlighting…
An allegory of wisdom, attributed to Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609–1681) Phronesis and Virtue: Reflections from Gdańsk I am a full-time maths teacher at an inner-city comprehensive school in Coventry, UK. For the past three years, I’ve also been doing a…
“In the last 4 weeks, have you experienced any feelings of depression or apathy?” (short pause) “No.” I’m a terrible liar. I’d recently had a fall out with a friend which had been all-consuming, and I’d spent the subsequent months…
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by Robin Attfield Book cover for Attfield (2024). Taken from the Polity Press catalogue. Polity Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781509559084, Hbk. ISBN: 9781509559091, Pbk. ISBN: 9781509559107, eBook. RRP: £50.00 / £14.99, 276pp. Recent opinion poll…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. **** The appearance in recent times of Open AI’s ChatGPT series and Google’s Bard application has resulted in a spate of articles analysing such developments which reflect views…
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 Alternative|Education, 2022) 268 pp, ISBN: 978-1-350-21714-0 RRP £81.00 (hardback), £64.80 (e-book)…
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 systemic racism as sociopolitical realities that intersect with…
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 first for Disney in Europe. It forms…
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 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…
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…