Whilst thinking about a possible new job last evening, these ideas came to mind. At the moment, it is just a list, but some of these will be explored in more detail as time passes. Some are questions, some statement, some reveal their subject, some are lyrical in style.
- ‘Am I bothered?’ the contemporary experience of children and literature.
- Revisiting the fear of failure.
- Authority and rebellion at the core of the classroom process.
- Existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Levinas and the idea of teaching.
- Applying the ‘Carlsson’ lesson: professional principles applied to school management.
- Making Media Matter; the underselling ofspecialist media studies.
- Communication in the ‘real world’; do schools prepare children for the world of work?
- What is a school for?
- Towards a phenomenological theory of education.
- The releveance or otherwise of school – the consuming child mind and the inquiring mind.
- Schizology and education; approaches from Deleuze.
- The prison or the school; approaches from Foucault.
- Towards a meta-pedagogy.
- (? Empowering) the other in the workplace; Levinas’ being amongst teachers.
- Loving the job; Existential phenomenology and sincerity.
- Joy in the classroom.
- Play and fun in learning.
- The limitations of the academic model in state education >
- How to make egalitarian educational principles work. >
- Attitudes to learning and intelligence in society.
- Existential phenomenology as the grounds of a theory of education and an education policy.
- Is ‘successful competitiveness’ possible, or even desireable?
- From a process model to an interactive model to English learning.
- What is wrong with using media in the classroom?
- Is the end of paper a desireable end?
- English is learning the saying.
- Activities which encourage the autonomous use of the mind.
- Fear of thinking.
- What do children learn in Primary schools?
- The child’s view of education.
- Reconsidering the Key Stage 2 English curriculum.
- A child’s achievement in school is defined by the earliest experiences.Who speaks in the classroom?; the dynamics of engagement.
- The end of the Teacher.
- Practical considerations for the aspiring Engish teacher.
More thoughts as they occur.
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