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December 22, 2014

On Dialectic: Dissoi Logoi – Teaching the Trivium

Plato saw dialectic as a way of refining opinions to reveal truth. Aristotle saw dialectic as remaining in the world of ‘opinion,’ (with logic being the way to reveal truth). In the… Read more
December 20, 2014

Tell Us About Your Blog (Or Somebody Else’s): The New Spreadsheet

Originally posted on The Echo Chamber: There is now a new spreadsheet of UK Education bloggers available here, based on the latest version of the list of bloggers. If you… Read more
December 18, 2014

From the sublime… On Beauty, Eloquence, Grit and Resilience

… to 1977. The filth and the fury… Never mind the bollocksed grey seventies, the two glorious summers of 76 and 77 did not sate my teenage angst. Sex and… Read more
December 16, 2014

Master* Teachers: Community and Expertise

“Obsessing about quality is a way of subjecting the work itself to relentless generic pressure; workers given over to this passion can dominate or detach themselves from others less… Read more
December 13, 2014

Is Teaching A Profession?

(One of the arguments for a College of Teaching is that it will raise the status of teaching as a profession. Do I want teachers to have higher status as a… Read more
December 9, 2014

Was Gove only ‘Obeying Orders’?

Some interesting and controversial tweets by Dominic Cummings this afternoon: He tweeted, that, in essence, Michael Gove did not want to take a confrontational line with teachers but he was… Read more
December 9, 2014

Some Questions About The Proposed College of Teaching

A college of teaching is to be set up to: “Protect standards and to raise the status of the teaching profession”. “Ms Morgan says she wants teaching to be seen… Read more
December 7, 2014

On Character Education: A Response From Scotland

Gary Walsh who tweets here and is the Executive Officer for Character Scotland has asked if I would publish his response to my latest post on ‘character education‘. I have written three… Read more
December 6, 2014

Forget Character ‘Passports’ and Embrace Eudaimonia

This is the text of my talk at the National Conference of the SSAT on December 4th 2014: There is a dichotomy at the heart of the discussion about… Read more
December 3, 2014

Measuring Progress in Drama

Measuring progress in a subject like drama is very difficult, a teacher can make assessments but these are likely to be very subjective. This is not necessarily a bad thing… Read more

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