Peer Evaluation

Look at this clip on consensus democracy taken from the group at Occupy Wall Street:- .... this is democracy. This is the democracy that good education should empower. Where has it come from? Apologists for the education system would cliam that it came as a by-product of how these people were educated, but if you …

Changing the teacher’s mindset

When I first started thinking about the four components of Matriellez education:- Corporate Paradigm Natural Development Quality Portfolio Wifi Classroom .... then initially I feel there is little to be altered when considering democratic empowerment; but then I began to think:- "Why did the realisation of the changing approach to democracy at Occupy affect me?" …

Learning Democratically

Occupy is a significant political movement even if it makes few gains against the corporatocracy. It is a global movement of young people who are saying there is something wrong. It has no leaders, and that is significant democratically. Here is a journalist Penny Red describing her views of the movement globally at the moment …

Introduction

Since retiring I have been writing about education, and have written a good deal of my book. In fact I thought I had finished the book but did not complete it as it wasn't being commercially published. Then today I began to realise that there was something missing from the book and that this needs …