• The Beautiful Twist in Education

  

  4th April 2025

  In times such as these, it is difficult to ignore the prevailing practice of attempting to measure the success of (formal) educational endeavours using all manner of qualitative and quantitative...
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• The Resurrection of David

  

  24th March 2025

  At the height of the Renaissance, Michelangelo unveiled David. This was also the unveiling of the ‘Renaissance man’. In examining this towering figure, one notices that his head and hands are...
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• The Educational Dimension of Acts of...

  

  11th February 2025

  Book cover for Wrońska & Stern (eds.) (2024). Taken from the Routledge catalogue. Routledge, 2024. ISBN: 9781032471693, Hbk. ISBN: 9781003386100, eBook.  RRP: £145.00 / £39.99,...
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• Uncovering Education

  

  27th January 2025

  Book cover for Wrońska & Stern (eds.) (2024). Taken from the Routledge catalogue. Routledge, 2024. ISBN: 9781032471693, Hbk. ISBN: 9781003386100, eBook.  RRP: £145.00 / £39.99,...
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• Care. What is it good for?

  

  7th October 2024

  I’m going to ask you a question. I want you to answer the question quickly and without thinking about it. Please be honest, it’s only for yourself. Here goes: Can you teach someone without...
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• Yoga, Embodiment, Education

  

  31st July 2024

  The gate is narrow. The path is mine alone. Your intuition knows what to write. So get out of the way. Ray Bradbury. Yoga has a plethora of definitions, from intimacy to discipline, and it...
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• ‘Nobody ever goes in… Nobody ever...

  

  4th April 2024

  New College, University of Oxford (Copyright Paula Ambrossi) Paula Ambrossi reflects on the annual PESGB Conference, New College, University of Oxford (22 - 24 March, 2024).  It was a pleasant...
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• The selfless Teacher

  

  24th March 2023

  It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that,...
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• Book Review: Myra Barrs, Vygotsky the...

  

  23rd December 2022

  Paperback: £19.99, pp256 ISBN 9780367195410 By Kyrill Potapov University College London, UCL Interaction Centre   This review is also available to download as a PDF here   Vygotsky...
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• Book Review: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing...

  

  27th November 2022

  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...
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• Thinking or thinking well? An antidote...

  

  3rd October 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   ***   Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time...
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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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