Physical hardship is often reported in popular press articles along with associated calls-for-action. Poverty is serious. It is a well recognized devastating condition with high impact knock-on effects right across the spectrum. So too is cognitive hardship. Many students carry a lifetime of stunted mental growth because they failed to engage successfully with advancing […]
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A lever is a means for gaining some advantage. For example, when relocating a large rock, a steel bar could be used as a lever. A door handle is a lever for sliding back the closing mechanism. A coat hanger is a lever. As too is a toothbrush. Every tool is a customized lever. All physical levers
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Everybody needs a voice to which others will listen respectfully. When that’s denied and sticky suffocating silence stifles communication then wordless physical reaction will take the lead and shout on behalf. Look-at-me substituted speech often reveals itself negatively. There’s plenty to observe with body mutilations, acting out, eating disorders, anti-social behavior and
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Here’s what’s disappointing about teachers’ understanding of pedagogy. Try this out. Ask any qualified teacher to identify and discuss a particular theory (or tradition) they accept and apply for advancing student learning. Some may mumble a reply of sufficient detail to gain a bare-minimum C- pass. Many are more likely to
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Authentic education is difficult to market. That’s because there’s no obvious product. It’s quite unlike manufacturing, or an app or other software where there are actual marketable outputs generated. Common ubiquitous jump-through-the-hoop instructional procedures do have verifiable outcomes. That’s because the observed result is either acceptable or it is not. If
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Mental lockdown may arise from various contributing sources. It could be a side-effect from closed-head injury, or an unwanted infectious viral assault, or poverty, or lack of adequate educational resources and so on and so forth. It could also be from socially-inflicted limitations. As, for instance, when minds are quarantined through strong
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There are multiple reasons why students don’t get on with learning what others expect them to do It’s a topic that’s generated thousands of research-based and popular press articles. In digital form these articles would probably occupy terabytes of storage. Even so and in spite of it all, this issue continues to
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There’s an expression, nature abhors a vacuum. That is, nature resists low pressure vacuums and will always try to remove or balance them, as in weather systems. There are many ways of deliberately creating a vacuum zone of lower pressure. For instance, a vacuum-cleaner’s motor is designed to make a low-pressure zone
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