Co-pilot 2025 Key Ideas in Pedagogy of the Oppressed Banking Model of Education Freire criticizes the traditional "banking" model where students are passive recipients of knowledge deposited by teachers. He argues this model reinforces oppression by discouraging critical thinking and maintaining hierarchical power structures. Dialogical Education Freire advocates for a dialogical approach where…
Been a long time since I posted anything, but this Mitchell and Webb resonated all too well. After many years of writing the same feedback, I can forget some people are reading it for the first time.
I have written elsewhere on my blog about this question. Over the past decade (plus) I have reviewed what must be hundreds of applications for HEA/ AdvanceHE fellowships, supported applications and taught on postgraduate certificate courses. However, despite the work of Coffield et al (2004) published two decades ago the idea of learning styles seems Continue reading Why does the idea of learning…
My latest article with Emma-Louise Jay has now been published 'Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’: some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future'. This paper calls for educationalists to recognise the value of theories of social acceleration to gain a better understanding of contemporary educational practices and how the COVID-19 pandemic is illustrative…
I am pleased to have joined the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre at Kingston University London. I have been there two weeks so far and will be working mainly on the Kingston Academic Practice Standards (KAPS) framework which gives experienced higher education staff a route to AdvanceHE Fellowships.
I have accepted an offer of voluntary redundancy and will be leaving the University of Brighton next month. I've been fortunate to work with excellent colleagues at the university for nearly 10 years. and have enjoyed supporting colleagues across the university with their curriculum design, their assessments, their Advance HE fellowships and leading our Postgraduate Continue reading A new chapter
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is generating a lot of interest at present in the learning and teaching community. Should we be concerned about it? Or is there nothing to worry about? I asked it some questions on everything from Freud and Friere to midwifery and cancer cells to find out. (Thoughts will be in future Continue reading Answers from Chat GTP