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This is a different kind of blog post – it is a collection of tweets about an article I read, so it will probably be a bit disjointed. Just finished reading “Australian schools as deliberative spaces: framing the goal of active and informed citizenship” by Sarah Sorial and @apetersoned in The Curriculum Journal. Great stuff….

I’m on a roll – I’ve just finished reading the third chapter in Flipping the System. This chapter, entitled Flipping the System but in which direction? is by Gert Biesta, an education academic that I’ve long admired for his work in the fields of philosophy, pedagogy and democracy. I cited Gert quite a bit in my own thesis. Biesta’s chapter begins by agreeing…

I finally got around to reading the second chapter of Flip the System: Australia and I am glad I did. This chapter, which looks at commercialisation in Australian public schools, was written by Anna Hogan and Bob Lingard, both well known and highly respected academics. It draws on their research, conducted by a survey, into how teachers…

I saw an article criticizing the Fallout series the other day that caught my eye. Not because of the criticism, per se –  the later versions of Fallout have their fair share of detractors – mostly to do with the range of bugs and myriad other broken parts of the game – but rather the…

I recently attended a funeral; it was a heartbreakingly sad event, even though it all went off as well as those things can. It was well attended, the priest spoke with deep knowledge of the deceased, and the family put together a beautiful tribute. Still, sad. But it got me thinking about grief, and the…

I’ve been inspired by the Flip The System movement for a couple of years now; I like the fearless way they’ve embraced the challenge of finding and amplifying teachers’ voices in the current educational climate. So, it was with a fair amount of enthusiasm that I ordered the Australian version, edited by Deborah Netolicky, Jon…

The first time I met David he was cleaning his gun. I’d been seeing Elizabeth for a while, and it was time for the fateful first meeting with the parents. Of course, I was young and immature and had teased Elizabeth about being a ‘westie’ a lot over our developing relationship. I met her mum…

I don’t get as much time to read for pleasure as I used to; I remember when I was young I would read books every week – but these days it feels like it can take a very long time indeed to make it through the book I’m currently reading. I also note that I’m…

I’m not really sure where this blog post is going to go; one of the reasons that I decided to have a website is so that I can write things on it – even if it is intermittent. They writing isn’t so much about sharing my ideas – though anyone reading it is welcome –…

I can’t remember when I first played Morrowind. I think I was living in the UK at the time, and I was thrilled that I had managed to hack my work laptop to play something that I was actually interested in. In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the right way to go about things – certainly…