In Praise of the Essay
(Essais, de Montaigne, 1595) The essay is a unique way of approaching education. It can be part science in that it means ‘to test’ or ‘to experiment’. Conversely, it can be part art in that in that it is an…
Category History
Polymathy Lost: On the politics of polymathy
(Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have become who we are. Our curiosity and…
The Educational Dimension of Acts of Political Forgiveness
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, 238pp. (This article is part of a series of blog posts from authors in a collection,…
Uncovering Education
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, 238pp. (This article is part of a series of blog posts from authors in a collection,…
A Socialist in Disneyland
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…
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…
On the origins of PESGB
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…