Category Archives: Opinion
Rewilding the workplace – Hedgefoxes and Trophic Cascades
We’ve got too many hedgehogs. Not in our gardens, where they are disappearing at an alarming rate. There are too many hedgehogs in our workplaces. Before I go any further, I love hedgehogs. One of my dearest friends, Hugh Warwick … Continue reading
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Why we perpetuate Climate Injustice in schools (written in collaboration with ChatGPT)
Imagine if even half the energy that has been put into thinking, debating and implementing ‘knowledge rich’ approaches and cognitive science informed pedagogy in the past 10 years had been directed towards a curriculum that seriously tackled the climate crisis … Continue reading
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Tagged climate education, climate justice, education, Pearson global learner survey, schools
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Corana exposed the Tradio Tzar
This week, the government’s Behaviour Tzar and cheerleader of one tribe of #edutwitter seems to have had a meltdown in front of his 72K followers. (Updated version) Picking on the very affordances of technology that propelled him into the big … Continue reading
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Pedagogy is Political
Warning – Polemic – Warning Today, the news is full of shock and anger, mostly from the Left, at the news that St Olave’s Grammar School kicked out kids that were not maintaining the ‘high standards’ and exceptional results it … Continue reading