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, 26 May 2021

Cummings, Covid, herd immunity and eugenics

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For me the significance of Dominic Cummings' testimony today is first a feeling in the guts. He has conjured up a terrifying picture of ...

Monday, 24 May 2021

You say parody, I say satire, let's call the whole thing off

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Some years ago there was a court case in the US where the owners of 'Dr Seuss' sued someone for using 'The Cat in the Hat' i...

Sunday, 23 May 2021

Your mob, your cult...

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I notice that one of the ways to criticise people who agree with me on twitter is to call them a 'mob' or a 'cult' and that ...

If someone found a picture of Corbyn reading one of Judith Kerr's Mog books...

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I wonder if someone found a picture of Jeremy Corbyn reading one of Judith Kerr's Mog books what they might have done to it...(the lat...

Saturday, 22 May 2021

Double Standards: a case of selective outrage

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Chapter 2 (Chapter 1 follows this) A doctored image appears on twitter. The image is one from several years ago of Corbyn reading 'We...

Friday, 7 May 2021

Teaching formal written standard English: bottom-up or top-down? Or both?

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Teaching school students how to write has been one of the main tasks of education for hundreds of years. One view is that writing should be...

What is grammar?

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I'm someone who believes that there is something we call 'reality' or 'nature' or the 'material world' and th...

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