Friday, 6 July 2018

'Neither Brussels or the City - for the many not the few'.

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I'm going to come over all marxist on this one. Surely, their division represents the crisis that they can't solve...
Monday, 2 July 2018

Rees-Mogg, the 'metropolitan establishment' and his own 'establishment'

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When Jacob Rees-Mogg signalled that there is something bad called the 'metropolitan establishment', we can ask, which part of himsel...
Saturday, 30 June 2018

3 booklets for teachers and students on how to have fun with literature.

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I have written 3 booklets on response, analysis and practical ways to introduce texts as a means to support our MA students (mostly teachers...
Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Exams are designed to confirm the capabilities of those who devise them.

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I believe that exam systems are designed to reinforce and confirm the capabilities or self-perceived capabilities of those who devise them. ...

What is important knowledge about a 'text' (a book, a poem, a play, an essay, an article etc)

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We say to children and students something to the effect of: "Here is a text" - that's to say we put a text in front of a cla...
Thursday, 14 June 2018

National unity? I don't think so.

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One of the great claims of the Conservative Party is that it is the truly national, unionist party of the UK. It will always try to portray ...
Sunday, 10 June 2018

Word gap. Is it?

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I'm reading a good deal about the 'word gap'. This is the observation that there is a huge gap in the number of words known by d...