Cultural Capital and Education
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Some thoughts on working hard at teaching
Teaching is a tough profession if you are emotionally invested. The institution of education is tremendously competitive, and sometimes vague how it rewards different outcomes. Like with sport or music, the margins between failure and success can be fine. There exists...
Guest Post – An English Literature Workshop with Myself, Age 14
Today's post is an Oxbridge student's reflection on what she would say to her 14-year-old self. It captures the earnest position of the profound thinker in British culture. Read more of Shreya Manna's wonderful writing at https://paradiseprose.com/ MISS MANNA: [forced...
Using Total War as an ECA: Decisive Battles in History and Exploring Literary Context
Exciting students in history opens them to wider cultural trends. In Beijing I ran, with the able and smart Welshman Aidan Jones, a Time Commanders ECA using the Total War series. Click here to visit the Time Commanders Website for an Example of this ECA
Chloe Moran’s Brianna: Example Creative Writing Project from the Summer of 2013
Brianna by Chloe Moran from gregorycanderson
Is there a moral element to teaching literature? Some thoughts over breakfast today.
A literature curriculum offers a strong moral element that students should not be denied. That moral experience, however, must be tempered by the school context and the teacher's professionalism. This post is in response to a recent conversation about the extent to...
Lecture: An Apology for Gaming Culture: Intellectual Trickery or Mindless Clickery?
A lecture I gave defending gaming culture, or at least my favourite parts of it. Gaming Culture: Intellectual Trickery or Mindless Clickery? from gregorycanderson
Focusing on Writing Composition for MA: why is this under-related to what the profession does?
The past few days I have been reading about writing composition with some interest as a synthesis of my interests since I last wrote. Writing composition seems the happy compromise between argumentative writing and analytical essays. Much of my current curriculum...
Dissertation Focus: Fiction Writing or Functional Writing? Or seeing how others do it?
After a fairly long time (over ten years) I began my educational MA with Bath University. While I think a subject-specific MA would be in a more established discipline, an educational MA promises vocational benefits. Quite whether those vocational benefits are to be...
Can Young’s concept of powerful knowledge, together with Bernstein’s theory of horizontal and vertical discourse, help to overcome some of the limitations of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital in explaining the connection between lower socio-economic status and underachievement?
Can Young’s concept of powerful knowledge, together with Bernstein’s theory of horizontal and vertical discourse, help to overcome some of the limitations of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital in explaining the connection between lower socio-economic status and...
Teaching well requires more nuance than can commonly be expressed… some thoughts.
David Petty, the name in collating evidenced-based teaching methods and justifications, says that expert teachers do not necessarily plan in detail individual lessons. However, if they speak about where the lessons are going, they enjoy a certain level of conceptual...
