Pedagogy
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“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” – Morpheus, in The Matrix Conspiracy theories have long existed and until recently were considered…
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A reflective piece from Fr Colin. From 2012 to 2016 I was privileged to be a parish priest in NZ. Our three children attended school there, and on the wall of my son’s class – front and centre – his teacher had placed a mere. The mere is a short, broad-bladed weapon used to strike an…
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A few weeks after completing my A-Level exams, when my peers were partying hard and preparing for university, I wistfully returned to school to seek out my old sixth form tutor. Results day was way off but I knew with certainty that I had squandered the last two years and was becoming consumed by a…
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In a recent post I described critical literacy as ‘a radically interrogatory, disruptive approach to reading and listening’ and explored James Damico’s (2012) suggested methodology of reading with and against a risky stories to promote it. Though, it would be remiss of me to imply that Damico’s methodology alone functions to this end. Below I…
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“[E]ducation is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire.” Gert Biesta paraphrasing W.B. Yeats. Freire’s call for teachers to engage their students in a process of conscientização— of awakening their ‘critical consciousness’ so that they might confront and react to the socio-political realities of themselves and others, the injustices in which they…
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1. Introduction This essay attempts to answer the question: to what extent does the DfE’s (2022) ‘Guidance on political impartiality in schools’ (henceforth ‘the Guidance’) support de/coloniality? To this end, I divide the essay into four sections. To begin, I briefly detail a selection of pedagogical views on what is and when to treat an…
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Being warm/strict as a teacher is part of a methodology which, if executed correctly, makes clear to students the expected classroom culture, behaviours and etiquette, and holds them to those expectations unwaveringly. This isn’t ‘strictness’ in the sense that one must be or pose as a dominator. No. Severus Snape was way out of line.…
Megapedagogy 