Category Archives: Personal

So I realised that despite still getting regular visits, this blog has been remarkably dead for the last however long (last post on Jan 14 is a joke!). Must admit that at the moment life has been taking precedence, and with a tonne of my head-space being taken up with ruminations about teaching and a [...]

Being inspired (and distracted) by Paulo Freire.

“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors”
“This concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the [...]

This is normally more of a Bec thing to do – but it’s Christmas so why not have a go. With this year’s Christmas being a relatively chilly one, I decided that our Christmas Eve celebrations should involve my favourite German Christmassy tradition: Glühwein (mulled wine).
Geoff’s Glühwein recipe

2 bottles of whatever Red Wine you have [...]

…then just dump in a youtube clip of a little kid playing the ukelele.

Of course if genius-freak children aren’t your thing you could always follow along my teaching adventures over at Son of a Teacher Man.

For those of you who notice these things – it’s been quiet here for the past week or so. Back on Friday the 13th (ominous I know) I finished up at work, and so for the past week and a bit have been taking it easy and not doing any more than I need to. [...]