Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Todays' events in Paris: a response re absolutism and persecution

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There is a kind of absolutist radical politics that seeks to have the final showdown with the enemy. In this scenario, anything which brings...

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

New poem: Footnote

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He noticed that a name appeared several times in footnotes. The name had, it said, provided some information. In another place, the na...

Phonics - Stephen Krashen takes up cudgels - again

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This is a letter to 'The Australian' sent by Professor Stephen Krashen Re: "Teacher training fails on literacy" (Jan. 6, 2...

Monday, 5 January 2015

Children's Literature Interest Group Interview

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Children's Literature Interest Group Interview with Michael Rosen Image source Michael Rosen website Michael Rosen is one o...

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Football thoughts

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Argument - the first phase of organised football coincided with full scale industrialisation. It corralled some of the people’s carnivales...

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Sedgehill: story of a school being forced to be an academy

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Hi Michael I've long followed your support of schools under threat of academisation. I'm the mother of two children at Sedgehill, a ...

Saturday, 13 December 2014

I Caught Farage on the train reading 'Lessons in Scapegoating'

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"Lessons in Scapegoating" 1. Identify a group of people as the 'other'. Do this by remarking on aspects of their life you ...

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