Recent posts
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Can we have shared professional meaning in teaching?
12 November 2018 // 2 Comments
I have a longstanding interest in how teachers create meaning from the things that they teach. Indeed, this question was right at the heart of two papers I had published a [...] -
Relevance, meaning and the myth of the empty vessel
7 November 2018 // 1 Comment
We all should now know that Yeats never said that “education is not the filling of a pail”. The sentiment, however, is true. Various ‘constructivist’ theories of [...] -
Critical thinking and domain specificity
14 October 2018 // 1 Comment
As a consequence of a pleasant Twitter thread over the weekend, I am currently revisiting two papers that have heavily influenced how I think about the idea of ‘critical [...] -
Getting past gobbets: creating well-read pupils in history
5 October 2018 // 1 Comment
Pause, for a moment, and think back to your own school days, however distant those may be. Think back to your English Literature lessons, and see if you can produce a quick [...] -
Why does pedagogy dominate curriculum?
3 October 2018 // 1 Comment
In my previous blog post, I argued that one of the reasons we have ended up at the door of very prescriptive approaches to pedagogy – such as scripted lessons – has come [...]