Sitemap - 2012 - The mythopoetic classroom

English teaching: looking backwards to the past and forwards to the future

Singing nonsense from the one song sheet

English as a discipline: tracing its origins

Secondary English: hybrid subject or coherent discipline?

We wrote a story. Valid research or not?

Means and ends in English teaching

Thoughts on the story 'Sylvia's distress'

Sylvia's Distress: a short story

English teaching's mid-life crisis?

Linda Rief

Re-imagining English teaching

"There's the evil and the good." On the function of story.

What if ...

Truth and fiction

What is

Spatial delight

Story-telling and truth-telling

The ethnographic challenge

Visiting the Morgan Library: intersecting worlds of scholarship and fiction

Cogs in a machine: the language of teacher professional standards

Putting students at the centre

Carl Rogers on the futility of teaching

Goethe on theory's relationship to experience

Can a short story be a valid form of research or scholarship?

Emily Dickinson and telling truth slant

Is reading journal articles of any use to the beginning teacher?

On reading academic journal articles

Can theory be useful when a class is out of control? a short story

Teacher education as preparation for what is or what could be?

What is curriculum theory?

Instrumentalised teaching and research in higher education

Experiential shock and whispering voices

Making time and space for thoughts

Managing doubt and anxiety for a beginning teacher

Uncanny and creepy detours

The indeterminate zones of practice

Bobby McFerrin, teacher

The painful path from aspiration to potency

Thinking about theory

The mythopoetic function of storytelling

The day theory rescued me with a student

An idea that feeds the mind wholly with joy

The dark hours that deepen the senses

Models of classroom management: a misleading objectifying of experience?

Fear, drive my feet: managing my own pre-course anxiety

Play & my new iPad

Fictional characters: just the author in fancy dress?