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For whom do we write the (outdoors) curriculum?
Morey Schwartz asked in 2006 (J. CURRICULUM STUDIES, 2006, VOL. 38, NO. 4, 449–457) “For whom do we write the curriculum?” and proposes an interesting model around the “rehearsal curriculum:” “The teacher finds an exciting blueprint in the curriculum that enables … Continue reading
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PGCE Placement – a guest blog
Jen Day (who is to be found here) sent her PGCE students this message at the midweek for their first placement in School Based Training. Without saying much more than I love it, it is reproduced here without comment: Dear PGCEs, … Continue reading
Fatherhood I
One of the joys of the team here at the moment is the real energy there is towards research. and looking outwards to more fluid forms of communication such as blogging. Mat Tobin, for example, has recently blogged on why … Continue reading
Maintained Nursery Schools
Killing any birds with any number of stones is not easy in election time. This blog post, short though it is, maybe is over-ambitious. This information is intended largely for the enlightenment of my own students (do I own students?) as … Continue reading
Visual Methodologies
Hmmmm. I’m re-reading Gillian Rose on Visual Methodology, and she has given me a lot to think about. I’d like to see if I can apply her ideas to some children’s work such as this: So let’s look at this … Continue reading
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Beyond the Motivational
This from Carl Hendrick is such a good blog post I have to point to it, even if my comments after it are lightweight. “This type of stuff is obviously well intentioned but beyond symbolising a culture that privileges the … Continue reading
Attention sp
William Pooley raises some interesting questions here about attention span. Should we be “so willing to assume that every individual has a fixed ‘span’ (which can be stretched, or curtailed, perhaps, but still exists as a kind of objective measure)”? … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Leadership, Management and Ethos
A colleague of mine, an expert in how groups and professionals communicate, once asked me what I felt makes a good leader. I gave her a copy of the Rule of St Benedict. Oxford Brookes, as I write, is searching … Continue reading
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Work in a Chill Month
There is the story that someone is admitted to Hell and is allowed their choice – one choice, and for ever – of punishment. It’s all very Hieronymous Bosch until the man finds a room in which everyone is sitting … Continue reading
Zombies
My main idea – there aren’t many – for tomorrow (Thurs 30th, School of Education Hallowe’en Seminar) is to look at the notion of the oath suggested by practice in Singapore and by Tristram Hunt on his return from his … Continue reading