• Attention, Love, and the Good: Towards...

  

  20th March 2026

  (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It is almost a tautology to describe the Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (henceforth, SEND) system in England as in crisis. For many...
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• Book Review: The War on Science

  

  13th November 2025

  The War on Science edited by Lawrence M. Krauss Book cover for Krauss (2025). Taken from the Forum catalogue. Forum, 2025. ISBN: 9781800756182, Hbk. ISBN: 9781800756199, eBook. RRP: £16.39 /...
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• Book Review: The Ethics of the Climate...

  

  12th July 2024

  The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by Robin Attfield Book cover for Attfield (2024). Taken from the Polity Press catalogue. Polity Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781509559084, Hbk. ISBN: 9781509559091,...
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• Book Review: Pedagogies of Taking Care...

  

  2nd April 2024

  Pedagogies of Taking Care by Dennis Atkinson Bloomsbury, 2022 ISBN: 9781350288324, Hbk. RRP: £85.50, 272pp Book cover for Atkinson (2022). Taken from Bloomsbury...
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• Enabling free inquiry together: A...

  

  18th December 2022

      This post can be downloaded as a PDF here     here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work of...
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• Civil Liberties & the Need for Lordean...

  

  10th October 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   The British government doesn’t want us talking about race. More precisely: it doesn’t want us talking about structural and...
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• Education, 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...
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• Exam 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...
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• Exam 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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• The Government’s Creeping...

  

  22nd March 2021

  The Conservative Government defends its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as a “sensible package of measures,” justly tough on the worst violent offenders – especially those who commit...
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• Exam Results, Fairness, & Trust: A...

  

  1st March 2021

  *** This is the second post in a PESGB Blog series focussed on educational assessment and the UK Government’s handling of England’s 2020 national exams (GCSEs and A Levels) in the wake of...
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• An Argument in Favour of Results by...

  

  14th February 2021

  ***   This is the first post in a PESGB Blog series focussed on educational assessment and the UK Government’s handling of England’s 2020 national exams (GCSEs and A Levels) in the wake of...
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