Hello. My name is James, and it has been several years since I last blogged. It's not that I haven't wanted to. It's just [...]

A guest post by Dr Ian Cunningham. This article was first published in Juno magazine, March 1, 2015. Take yourself back to your schooldays. Did you [...]

Yesterday I was asked to make a one-page summary of practitioner research. I shared it on Twitter and it seemed to go down quite well, [...]

In the Learning to Learn curriculum I'm evaluating as the focus of my PhD, the first project we run in Autumn term 1 is an [...]

To be clear from the outset, the title is no click-bait: I genuinely believe this to be true. It’s not that I consider written forms [...]

I stumbled across a blog this week which appears to be a critique of my last blog. I say 'appears' because the piece, by Michael Fordham, firstly characterises [...]

Imagine a school where, alongside the traditional range of subject disciplines, students are able to choose from a range of short, optional courses in topics [...]

Hi everyone. My name is James and I have thought there should be more to education than an almost exclusive focus on a narrow band of [...]

In this post I argue that compulsory GCSEs for all, which means enforced failure for some, is profoundly unethical. I also outline an alternative model for secondary school assessments.  Educational [...]

A few months ago I wrote a piece for Optimus Education's Insight magazine, which they have kindly agreed to let me share here. Here's a link if [...]

As is customary, this blogpost was inspired by a discussion I had on Twitter the other day. The thread is here if you're interested, but in [...]

A year ago, I began working as a tutor at the Self Managed Learning College in Brighton. It's an alternative education provider for young people aged 9-16 [...]

I wrote this back in March 2013 in an attempt to map current and historical discourses around education, and to question why some things just don't seem to [...]

On Friday evening I received this series of 3 tweets from Greg Ashman, who writes a blog called Filling the Pail. https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/804805816582742016   https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/804806702893629440   [...]

This follows on from my last 2 blogs: Learning is meaningless A glossary of learning terms In this post, I would like to explain (to [...]

In my last post I argued that, for educators at least, the word ‘learning’ is so vague as to be meaningless except as an umbrella [...]

Definitions are important. Everybody knows this. If we can’t be clear about the meanings of the words we use, we should stop using them and [...]