A School for Thought II: Thinking & Unthinking
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…
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What is the meaning of education in a post-pandemic state?
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 pre-pandemic state it seems pertinent…
Philosophy as Dialogue & as Gift: Philosophy In and Beyond the Classroom
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” module (autumn/winter 2021) *** I coordinate a second-year…
Orwell: On Writing Clearly
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, transparent to the reader and reflecting meaning…
Thoughtwashing: A Modern Curse?
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…
A School for Thought
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, portentously enough, School for Thought, to…
The Horrifying Real at the Mountains of Madness (Part II)
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 educational journey might yield a Lovecraftian…
Education, Social Reforms and Philosophical Development: Evidence from the past, Principles for the Future
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 Development: Evidence from the Past, Principles for the…
Exam Results, Fairness, & Trust: A (Final?) Response
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…
Exam Results, Fairness, & Trust: A response to Karen Lancaster and Mary Richardson
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…