In previous blog posts I’ve written about the way that HE ITE tutors are caught between practice and theory – and at home in neither, and about the central problems of initial teacher education that interact with the marginal status
What’s the point of me (2) – what’s my position in HE?
I’m using this series of posts as a way of thinking through the development of my professional identity and position. In my last post I talked about moving from teaching to HE. In this post I’ll consider this a little
What’s the point of me, a HE lecturer in Inital Teacher Training?
Moving from school to university as an ITE tutor is an important personal and professional change. Apart from the weirdness of no-one giving a monkeys about you telling them about what time you go home, or what you’re doing from
McDonald’s, Voluntaryism and School Meals.
I’ve been doing some historical reading recently for a potential project about school meals in turn of the 20th Century Bradford. It is lovely to be reading and thinking about history again, after a long break, enforced by taking up
Review: A Philosophy of Schooling by Dr Julian Stern
Review and Welcome of A Philosophy of Schooling by Dr Julian Stern(1) This is the ‘welcome’ to Julian Stern’s thought-provoking book that I gave at meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain at Leeds Trinity University on
Michael F.D. Young, Graduate Teachers and the Hero’s Journey
Just over a year ago I started reading books that I thought I wouldn’t agree with. One of those books was E.D. Hirsch’s ‘Cultural Literacy’, and although I didn’t agree with it (as feared), I will be forever grateful that
Project Halpin: ‘Cultural Literacy’ (1) – Hirsch and the Reader
This is part of a series of posts that I’ve been writing over a much longer period than I originally planned. The idea came from a lecture given by David Halpin, in which he discussed the need for us to approach
Tweet tweet! That’s the sound of the police…
I’ve been thinking about (and will probably have been writing this post) for quite a long time – collecting examples of a kind of twitter behaviour that has been interesting me for some time. A key feature of many edu-twitter
Patriotism and Brexit – a few thoughts.
Patriotism is often the last refuge of the disenfranchised, or a lever of power which is used to wield influence over them. People need institutions and ideas that they can invest belief in, and that they can trust to help
Project Halpin – The Other Invisible Hand by Julian Le Grand: Choice
I’m currently reading 12 books that I think I might disagree with, inspired by a lecture I went to by David Halpin. With this post, I’m finishing writing about the first book I read – Julian Le Grand’s ‘The Other