ABOUT THE SITE AND ME

What You Need to Know

Since qualifying as a teacher in 1991, I have been enthralled by trying to understand how we learn and what this impies for teaching. I take the view that teaching can, and should, lead to learning, but that the latter sometimes happens inspite of the former, and that the former does not always lead to the latter.

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Worldwide views of education mostly now assume that learning is best evidenced by high stakes testing and that teaching should mostly concern itself with ensuring learners attain highly. Although I do not share that view, I do recognise that this is the world in which we live.

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Here I lay out some thoughts regarding how we might comprehend pedagogy, that most elusive of concepts, in an effrot to challenge such notions from the point of our engagement and transformation of the world.

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I am a Senior Lecturer (Curriculum and Pedagogy Policy) in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland