School
My teacher's eyes … early years … language and learning … curriculum and big ideas … initial training … continuing development
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This online scrapbook is still (July 2025) evolving, still a draft for consultation and feedback, not a finished product. After further reflection, and in the light of comments , suggestions and contributions from others, it will in due course, hopefully, be expanded during 2026 and further tidied.
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INTRODUCTORY
My Teacher’s Eyes - 'I wish', 1999
A Nightmare - 'I don't care', 1999
Love and Inspiration - 'I don't know', 2002
TALKS AND ESSAYS
Some Day - messages from the classroom, 1997
Let's Begin at the Beginning - making marks, telling words, 2001
The Unfinished Business of Human Evolution - Some modest proposals, 2002
The Shape of Things to Come - expectations high and low, 2003
What Do We Tell the Teachers? - teacher educators as agents of change, 2004
Heat and Dust along the Way - routes to curriculum English, 2005
Workers, Leaders and Prophets - an address to headteachers, 2006
Big Ideas Across the Curriculum - topics and teaching, 2008
Learning to Live Together - 'fundamental British values', 2016
From Multiculturalism to Antiracism - and what next? 2018
REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
Ignorant Yobs - education and 'low attainers', 2013
Most of Them Are Marxists, You Know - Mr Gove's views on education, 2013
Oh Dear, Dear Brum - justice and equality in a great city, 2013
Dreaming of One Nation - Labour, multiculturalism and race, 2013
Pass it on, boys and girls, pass it on – the history we didn't have, 2014
The Truth about Immigration - a BBC documentary, 2013
Teaching Religion, Teaching Truth - approaches to dialogue, 2014