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What every teacher needs to know about teaching for social justice

Feb 03, 2018 | Category: Featured

The marvellous Teach Secondary magazine continue to publish my articles on a regular basis but don't hold that against them; there are loads of other excellent reasons for reading. Here's a link to my...

#Matthew effect #Teach Secondary

Can we develop a 'love of learning'?

Jan 13, 2018 | Category: Featured

The scholar and the world! The endless strife, The discord in the harmonies of life! The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love ...

#intelligence #IQ #environment #genes #health

12 rules for schools: Rule 6 Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world

Feb 07, 2018 | Category: Featured

This is the sixth installment in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson’s book, 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. You can read the rest of posts in this series here. Judge not, that y...

#12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson

"Anyone who disagrees with me is a neoliberal racist!"

Feb 04, 2018 | Category: Featured

I've spent much of last year or so feeling baffled at the unpleasant depths to which debate in education has sunk. The approach to which I've always tried to aspire is to advance an argument based on...

#Angela Nagle #cryptonormativism #Joseph Heath #neoliberalism

12 Rules for schools - Rule 4 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

Jan 26, 2018 | Category: Featured

This is the fourth in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. All the posts in this series are collected here. This is not intended as an accurate sum...

#Jordan Peterson #12 Rules #Max Ehrmann #target grades

12 Rules for schools – Rule 3 Make friends with people who want the best for you

Jan 24, 2018 | Category: Featured

This is the third in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. I'm linking all the posts in this series here. This is not intended as an accurate summar...

#12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson #friendship

Good intentions are not good enough

Jan 23, 2018 | Category: Featured

I genuinely believe that everyone involved in education is well-intentioned. If making money was the prime motivation I'm sure we could find other, more profitable areas to operate in. Like internatio...

#falsifiability #principle of charity

12 rules for schools – Rule 2 Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping

Jan 22, 2018 | Category: Featured

This is the second in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. You can find my thoughts on Rule 1 here. Please note, Peterson talks about a lot of othe...

#workload #Well-being #12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson #gratitude

12 Rules for schools - Rule 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders back

Jan 21, 2018 | Category: Featured

I've just finished the Canadian academic and controversialist, Jordan Peterson's book, 12 Rules of Life: An antidote to chaos and my over-riding impression is that it's an important, erudite and thoug...

#12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson

Teaching to make children cleverer: Part 1

Jan 05, 2018 | Category: Featured

I've argued previously that the aim of education ought to be to make children cleverer. If I'm right, then not only is it desirable, it's also possible to achieve this end. But before we can do so, we...

#intelligence #James Flynn