Month: August 2016
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Visible thinking to reduce conflict
Seeing this wonderful video made me wonder if visible thinking routines could help to reduce conflict in the diverse adult education classroom? Visible thinking is being used to professionalise the learning process, not only for the teachers but for the students too. I am impressed to see such young students thinking at such a meta…
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Do we have a problem?
Conflict in the diverse adult classroom Discussion of conflict resolution often starts with describing the conflict. But are you confident that you can even identify when there is conflict in your classroom?
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BREXIT – no quick fixes
It is undeniable that a large part of the Leave vote in the referendum over the UK’s membership of the EU was about the perceived effects of immigration. It did no good to argue that it is globalisation and the current government’s austerity policies that lead to the under-funding of public services and stagnating wages…