It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that, whilst seemingly innocuous and aligned with teaching, I argue is damaging and dangerous…
Paperback: £19.99, pp256 ISBN 9780367195410 By Kyrill Potapov University College London, UCL Interaction Centre This review is also available to download as a PDF here Vygotsky the Teacher (Barrs, 2021) is far more than the guide “for teachers…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below: *** Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time in surprisingly similar ways.… These events…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below: In a previous post I worried about the lack of real thinking in our schools. A couple of weeks later, Freya and…
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 pre-pandemic state it seems pertinent…
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” module (autumn/winter 2021) *** I coordinate a second-year…
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 can usefully think of thoughtwashing as acting in a…
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, portentously enough, School for Thought, to…
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 Government’s handling of England’s national examinations…
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 Government’s handling of England’s national examinations…
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 violent and-or sexual crimes against women. Critics say it’s an authoritarian…
A recent observation piece by Luke Sibieta of the IFS sets out to assess the potential economic harm of the recent restrictions to face-to-face teaching. Sibieta argues that the perceived loss of learning, unless dealt with, will have long-term…