In Praise of the Essay
19th January 2026
(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...
Read MorePolymathy Lost: On the politics of...
21st July 2025
(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...
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MoreUncovering 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,...
Read MoreA Socialist in Disneyland
20th June 2022
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...
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 MoreOn the origins of PESGB
16th June 2021
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...
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