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Unteachable Kids Part 3: A possible unit structure.

Unteachable kids: Part 2.

There are some kids who are plain unteachable.

My tribe.

Rembrandt’s ‘Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer’.

My new book.

The body without organs … further thoughts.

Seeing multiplicities and assemblages.

The body without organs.

Classroom flows and intensities.

Time to mull.

Getting published.

A hot afternoon in a 1972 classroom.

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Affect, art and scholarship.

On being made dizzy and earnest by Deleuze and Guattari.

Six aphorisms.

Entering Deleuze and Guattari’s labyrinth.

The Queen’s Journey: Meditation 2.

The Queen’s Journey: Meditation 1.

On meandering: the Queen’s Journey.

Story as agitator.

Mythopoetics and narrative inquiry: what’s the difference?.

On playing and starting a PhD.

Speaking back to the undermining demons.

Secondary English: lost in the forest?.

English teaching: looking backwards to the past and forwards to the future.

English as a discipline: what does geneology suggest?.

Secondary English: hybrid subject or coherent discipline?.

On writing fiction as an attempted act of scholarship.

Means and ends in English teaching.

Sylvia’s distress.

English teaching's mid-life crisis?.

Ethics in the English classroom.

What is a story? What does a story do?.

What if ….

Truth and fiction.

What is.

Spatial delight.

Story-telling and truth-telling.

The ethnographic challenge.

Visiting the Morgan Library: worlds of scholarship and fiction.

Opening ourselves up to the eye of the Other.

Cogs in a machine: the language of teacher professional standards.

Putting students at the centre.

Carl Rogers on teaching another how to teach.

Goethe on theory’s relationship to experience.

Can a short story be a valid form of research or scholarship?.

Losing literalism in the search for fact.

Scholarship and research: is there a difference?.

On reading academic journal articles.

Converting the outrage of the years.

A conversation about Tovani.

Freeing ourselves from assessment traps: moving towards adequate ideas about the purpose of assessment.

Teacher education as preparation for what is or what could be?: some thoughts after reading Grossman, Hammerness & McDonald 2009.

Beyond understanding: revisiting Hammerness et al (2002).

Instrumentalised teaching and research in higher education.

whispering voices and secret idioms.

Making time and space for thoughts.

There is no passion without the other’s passion.

Uncanny and creepy detours.

The indeterminate zones of practice.

Bobby McFerrin: master teacher and model.

The painful path from aspiration to potency.

The student revolt: online lecture for CPP 2 Week 4.

Thinking about theory.

The mythopoetic function of storytelling.

“Don’t we learn to teach on the job? What’s the point of theory?” A post for my students.

An idea that feeds the mind wholly with joy.

The dark hours that deepen the senses.

Models of classroom management: a misleading objectifying of experience?.

Fear, drive my feet: managing pre-course anxiety.

iPads, Winnicott and transitional spaces.

Are a writer’s characters just the author in fancy dress?.

Degrees of fiction.

Bleak House with footnotes: fiction and academic writing.

Research projects and abandoned mines.

Ethnographic opera.