July 2017

  • Mrs M's cunning strategy

    I've written before about Mrs M's hold on the German people, and to understand modern Germany, I think it's helpful to recall the idea of the panopticon. As you know, the original panopticon was the brainchild, we're told, of Jeremy...

  • Pearson and the architects of tomorrow’s world

    This is the front page of what Pearson has to say about its global learning programme: The Global Learning Programme (GLP) is a funded programme of support that’s helping teachers in primary, secondary and special schools to deliver effective teaching...

  • What would Wordsworth have said?

    It's well known that William W was against the railways, but what would he have made of UNESCO making the English Lake District a World heritage Site?  We'll never know, but that's ok because we've got George Monbiot.  He wrote...

  • About FACE

    LEAF [ Linking Environment And Farming ] recently merged with (that is, acquired) FACE [ Farming And Countryside Education ], although you'd not know this from a look at the front pages of its website, or at the board of directors, none of whom has...

  • Unconscious and Conscious Competence

    Just for your enjoyment, I'm pasting the whole of EAUC's message about the "wild success" of the 2017 Leadership Lab.  Surely it cannot have been as bad as all this implies. Turning Our Unconscious Competence into Conscious Competence The power...

  • Who's who in UKSSD

    I've written about UKSSD before when I wondered about why there were so few educational members.  They are in the news again and here's a question: How many of these significant people have you heard of: Dominic White - Head...

  • Did everyone get a prize?

    After the exhausting gloom of the planning enquiry that I wrote about recently, we set off for the Home Counties and the RHS's Hampton Court Flower Show.  We stayed in a hotel of decaying splendour which was once a fine...

  • All those declarations

    I wrote about Tbilisi about 6 months ago, wondering how that eponymous declaration would be celebrated, 40 years on.  And, about 5 years ago, I set out a list of the significant EE world conferences etc.  This was thanks to Alan...

  • Is 'circular' really just a bit less linear?

    This is a complement to my post the other day.  The title question is not mine but one recently asked by Ronald Rovers in three blogs: [1] CIRCULAR IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY IS MISSING… ITS ABOUT LINEAR SLOW-DOWN [2] CIRCULAR PART 2:...

  • Sachs at the T20

    I listened to Jeffrey Sachs (Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University) the other day (on YouTube) speaking at the T20 Summit in Berlin: Global Solutions.  Mercifully, it was only 22 minutes long.  The first 14 minutes were gloomy stuff,...