The phrase ‘unintended hidden curriculum’ comes directly from the work of Paechter (1999). She does not directly define it, but cites examples of it in practice and suggests where it may be seen. She also asserts that it may be controlled by ‘society’ and because of its unintentional nature be very hard to ‘resist’. Drawing …
Positive education’s focus on happiness is valuable and should not be forgotten in the ideal classroom. Techniques from or endorsed by positive education should be part of the ideal classroom. Nevertheless, positive education is not an appropriate theory for school’s to systematically pursue. It is inappropriate because of its subjectivity, its vulnerability to misunderstanding due …
First written in 2016, this post refers to the time before I was a senior leader. The post refers to two main sources that deserve to be credited at the top and are the only two items in the bibliography. The school I work at is still the same and I hope that I, as …
An old blog that I ran while doing my PGCEi had several popular pages which contain my commentary on education research that I was reviewing at the time. I have decided to publish those pages, slightly edited to be less reflective of the specific course. The first post is based on the following work: Wood, …
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