Endless Culture

Looking at education-related tweets it would seem that the most vilified idea in education at the moment is the idea that the child is an e...

According to 21st century pedagogic sagacity, there is one overriding imperative for teachers: Don’t be the sage on the stage; be instead...

The Element  and  Finding Your Element  are Sir Ken Robinson’s venture into the self-help market, where he delivers a message that is, in o...

The world of myth is one dominated by fate – a supra-human imperative keeping people in their place. In our high-tech world we would like t...

At no time in history have people been so obsessed with their tools. The edtech discourse turns discussions of education into discussions a...

The novel  Frankenstein  by Mary Shelley is a meditation on monstrosity in various forms. Unspoken in the background is a monstrous tumult ...

Professor Sugata Mitra is one of the great spokespeople for the strange movement in education that is hostile to the very notion of teachin...

By some strange synergy, the rise of EdTech – that product of a supposedly post-industrial industry – has gone hand in hand with the rise o...

A disturbing number of people are still talking about personalising education – making it person-centred. Often, this talk about the student...

Sir Ken Robinson  has something of the Luddite* about him. He refuses the industrial order, which the Luddites also refused back at the beg...