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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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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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,...
Read MoreThoughtwashing: 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...
Read MoreA 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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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...
Read MoreEducation, 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...
Read MoreExam Results, Fairness, & Trust: A...
14th May 2021
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...
Read MoreExam Results, Fairness, & Trust: A...
21st April 2021
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...
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