Welcome to my page for new and improved SLOP booklets for Physics GCSE. We do AQA Trilogy but most of the content is applicable for all boards. These booklets are free to download – I hope they are useful. For a great blog on teaching using booklets, see Adam Boxer’s blog here. For more on why... Continue Reading →
“Man lives in the meanings he is able to discern. He extends himself into that which he finds coherent and is at home there” - Michael Polanyi, “Meaning”, 1975 What is the purpose of human endeavour? It’s not just knowledge. We seek beauty , expression, joy and delight. Art, music, literature and dance light up... Continue Reading →
The disciplines and school subjects are different from each other in important ways, and we must understand these differences in order to lead and empower excellent curriculum work. The discussion around these differences was started by the work of Emil Durkheim, followed by Basil Bernstein, with recent work by Karl Maton and the Legitimation Code... Continue Reading →
If you've already been to a researchED conference, you'll know that it's not like other conferences. ResearchED is on a Saturday. A Saturday! Everyone knows how hard teachers work, all the extra hours we have to put in just to get our normal, paid job done. Why the hell do teachers opt in, pay to... Continue Reading →
First can I apologise for the inelegance of the title of this post. There wasn't a more elegant way to say what I wanted to say. And that's what life is like isn't it? Sometimes there is a mismatch between what we'd like and the way things are. Regarding actions in a school, what we'd... Continue Reading →
In his book of 1971 “Knowledge and Control”, Michael Young saw knowledge as a tool of oppression and an expression of hegemony of the ruling elite but then by 2008 he’s dramatically changed his mind and says that knowledge is crucial for social justice, we should be teaching it in schools, etc. etc. He develops... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my page for new and improved SLOP booklets for Physics GCSE. We do AQA but most of the content is applicable for all boards. These booklets are free to download - I hope they are useful. For a great blog on teaching using booklets, see Adam Boxer's blog here. For more on why... Continue Reading →
What do we mean by curriculum? And why is curriculum so important? How should curriculum planning and execution be informed by cognitive science? These are, in my opinion, questions of the utmost importance. What do we mean by curriculum? Curriculum is the substance of what is taught, structured over time. It is the things we... Continue Reading →
Something is happening in the teaching profession. People are bounding into work, buzzing about what they read on Twitter last night. People are asking "what's the evidence for this?" And they are finding it out, or finding out its absence. People are giving up their Saturdays to go to conferences. Actually that's not quite right.... Continue Reading →
