4 min readThe Indoctrination of Academic Conventions - Part 2How much does higher education indoctrinate us into a way of life based on insecurity and fear of never being good enough?
5 min readThe Indoctrination of Academic Conventions - Part 1To what extent do academic conventions support a person to excel, or do they in fact have far greater impacts than we wish to imagine?
6 min readTransparency, Intimacy and the Model of Education - Part 2 Why do we only ever hear the corrupted versions of transparency and intimacy referred to in the current model of education?
7 min readTransparency, Intimacy and the Model of Education - Part 1Why do we only ever hear the corrupted versions of transparency and intimacy referred to in the current model of education?
6 min readChildren's Art Work in Primary Schools - One Small StepMy colleagues and I recently made one small, yet significant, step against the flooding incoming tide of the imposition of grading...
5 min readThe Teaching of Genres in Schools and a New Critical Literacy - Part 1Around 30 years ago, the English curriculum underwent a significant pedagogical shift into the explicit teaching of genres, most notably...
6 min readThe Teaching of Genres in Schools and a New Critical Literacy - Part 2Teaching the Language of Narrative Today Today the first step in teaching any genre in a school setting, including the genre of...