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Cultural Capital: Empowerment

Cultural Capital: Empowerment

Cultural Capital: Empowerment What is the status quo and why challenge it? Well, that’s a big question. The status quo basically refers to things as they are and challenging it

Action Research and the Voice of Teachers

Action Research and the Voice of Teachers

Action Research and the Voice of Teachers What makes a language classroom a little extra special? I think it’s the fact that so much real life demands space inside it,

Cultural Capital – Problematise

Cultural Capital - Problematise

Cultural Capital – Problematise In my conversations with people about action research, the common disagreement I have is the idea of action research being a process that solves problems. Of

Cultural Capital – Cultures of Silence

Cultural Capital - Cultures of Silence

Cultures of Silence What if teachers were as important as academics, if not more important? What if classroom life, research and practice was at the core of educational policy decisions

Critical Pedagogy: The Hidden Curriculum

Critical Pedagogy: The Hidden Curriculum

The Hidden Curriculum   Within every school system, there is a curriculum and there is a hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum is composed of the lessons that are not taught

Critical Pedagogy – Cultural Capital

Critical Pedagogy - Cultural Capital

Cultural Capital Cultural capital refers to all the non-financial assets that aid social mobility. It’s all those little extras that help people change their position and situation in the socio-economic

Objects, Subjects and the Banking Model

Objects, Subjects and the Banking Model

“There is no teaching without learning” Paulo Freire  Paulo Freire and the Banking Model of Education are perhaps the two things I hear the most in my conversations with people

The Critical Mindset

The Critical Mindset

The Critical Mindset If you’re taking the time to read this, then I doubt you’re the sort of teacher who thinks there’s one best way to teach and one best