(Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by Joseph Severn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Education should instil a certain emptiness in students. It needs to be a hunger-inducing emptiness…
(Drawing hands, M. C. Esher, 1948) “Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (1989) One of the most important things we can do in education is…
Philosopher Lani Watson, whose work follows the life of questions, suggests that anyone wishing to understand their role should begin with a basic inquiry: What is a question? She looks to function. What does a question do, and what are…
(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…
Education is never only about the transmission of knowledge. It is a field where professional identities are shaped, contested, and continually remade. To speak of professional identity in teaching is to enter a space of fluidity, where becoming a teacher…
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 instruments. These measurements, in turn, intend to inform research into…
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 Alternative|Education, 2022) 268 pp, ISBN: 978-1-350-21714-0 RRP £81.00 (hardback), £64.80 (e-book)…