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Tag Archives: Hannah Arendt
Education, social justice and survival in a time of crisis.
Based on a presentation for the CSPACE ‘1000 little fires’ conference at Birmingham City University, July 2022. A system in crisis. It is clear that we are living in a global crisis which threatens our very survival. The climate emergency, … Continue reading
Learning through conflict.
Education, like all human endeavour, requires conflict, struggle, challenge, disagreement, argument, difference, dialectic, dialogue. If we want to learn or make anything new, we need to reach towards what we don’t know, to seek out the unknown. Education, and life … Continue reading
Education as a whole and in its parts
Creating a successful learning community Our college mission is to ‘create a successful learning community’. While this only applies to our small part of the education system it’s not a bad aspiration for the whole system. So what would be … Continue reading
Sixth forms working together against the tide
Opening speech to the Sharing Good Practice conference at St.Angela’s school, Stratford, 4th June 2014. We are all here today because we are committed to providing the best possible educational opportunities to young people aged 16-18 and because we think … Continue reading
Post-16 citizenship in tough times
The times we live in demand more than ever that we assume responsibility for ensuring that all young people are educated for global citizenship, in other words for survival. What might this look like post-16? The context The current context … Continue reading
Posted in Education, NewVIc, Politics
Tagged citizenship education, Confucius, Critical thinking, Democracy, Dr.Seuss, Education, Equality, global citizenship, H.G.Wells, Hannah Arendt, J.W. Goethe, John Dewey, Lev Vygotsky, liberal education, NewVIc, Solidarity, W.E.B. DuBois, young people
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Choose education not catastrophe
Choose education not catastrophe Welcome speech for People and Planet’s Shared Planet conference held at Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc), 2 November 2013. I am so pleased that People & Planet has chosen to have this year’s Shared Planet conference … Continue reading
Posted in Education, NewVIc
Tagged Education, England, Hannah Arendt, London, Newham Sixth Form College, People & Planet, Sixth form, Sixth form college
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