Defence of Luddism and a Luddite approach to pedagogy in education - a critique of the use of "Luddite" in the pejorative that abounds in the edtech discourse.
Critique of the horticultural model of education seen in the discourse of Sir Ken Robinson, Sugata Mitra and the teachers who put the verb "teach" in quotation marks.
Defence of John Locke's idea of the child as an empty vessel (blank slate, tabula rasa, blank sheet of paper), and argument for emptiness (freedom) to be at the core of the curriculum in education
Critique of the 21st century pedagogy idea of the teacher as the guide of the side: is this Socrates's teacher-midwife or is it more like the guard of the cave?
Edtech is supposed to make new forms of personalisation and customisation of education possible. What might the plan to personalise education look like when viewed from the depths of the economic crisis?
Look at Sir Ken Robinson's contribution. Has he really moved thinking about education forward or just found a way to become a star of the infotainment world?
Trying to eeke out a living after a PhD in philosophy - some teaching, some writing of teaching materials and odd bits of web design, interspersed by period of serious underemployment.