Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
In response to a number of emails I have received and conversations I’ve been having (and sadly … Learn more >>>>>
… Learn more >>>>>Once we have the safety moral high ground we can offend anyone, because we care about them? Once I have this moral high ground I can manipulate data for my own ends, I can police others, crusade and oppress others because, in the name of
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be safe but Safetyism is a psychosis (see: The Sickness of Safetyism). There’s nothing wrong with Science but scientism is dehumanizing. There is nothing wrong with being rational but rationalism warps a sense of human ‘being’. The notion of … Learn more >>>>>
It’s great to see that the Australians of the Year are adventurers.
The idea of adventure and learning in risk is central to all they represent. Even when they were in the midst of their rescue of the boys in the caves in Thailand they expected to … Learn more >>>>>
My eldest daughter has just graduated and has her first teaching work. So, we talk a lot about teaching, learning, curriculum, hidden curriculum, scaffolding, conversion, child development, psychology of learning, ethics, the politics of schooling and curriculum ideas.
Last week we were sharing ideas about art … Learn more >>>>>
