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  • Review of Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency

    March 21, 2024

    A review of ‘Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency’

  • Why and how should we encourage young people to research their local parks and green spaces?

    March 21, 2024

    Our parks have a problem with young people. Older children, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, feel unwelcome and unfairly blamed for things like anti-social behaviour.

  • Review of “Real-World Writers: A Handbook for Teaching Writing with 7-11 Year Olds”, by Ross Young and Felicity Ferguson

    March 19, 2024

    “Teachers themselves should be writers” and the ways in which writing for pleasure can be nurtured by English teachers.

  • The Time Devil runs amok: How I improved my creative practice by adopting a multimodal approach for a specific audience.

    March 19, 2024

    How teacher-writers can improve their craft and pedagogy by writing for a specific audience, namely school children. And why they might do so.

  • Diagrarting: theorising and practising new ways of writing and drawing

    March 19, 2024

    To “diagrart” (my neologism combining the words diagrams, dialogue and art), one must write and draw, and believe you are creating art, no matter how crude you think your work to be.

  • The Reciprocal Rebellion: Promoting Discussion in Authoritarian Schools

    March 19, 2024

    Reciprocal Teaching re-orders education by fostering meaningful relationships, challenging the hegemony of neoliberal schools: it is a rebellion against their authoritarianism.

  • Letting it all spill out: the benefits of venting for creative writing teachers and students. 

    March 19, 2024

    Specific therapeutic pedagogies that help people ‘vent’ their traumas and issues, with lots of practical suggestions and a rationale for ‘letting it all spill out’ in educational settings.

  • Affective digital presence: how to free online writing and drawing?

    March 19, 2024

    How freewriting and drawing can have a therapeutic effect when working online. It draws upon the experience of my students and my colleague, Dr Miranda Matthews. It also suggests a methodology for this approach.

  • What’s Next? Ecoliteracies and creative writing

    March 19, 2024

    Creative writing can be used to nurture ecoliteracie, helping people developing an organic, ecological view of language.

  • Teaching Creative Writing Online: Research-Informed Strategies

    March 18, 2024

    A summary of a presentation at NAWE Conference 2021, suggesting some ways of teaching creative writing online, using puppets, stories, drawings and metacognition.

  • Different ways of descending into the crypt: methodologies and methods for researching creative writing

    March 18, 2024

    For all creative writers who wish to explore writing processes further, using established research.

  • Why teach creative writing? Examining the challenges of its pedagogies

    March 1, 2024

    One of the purposes of teaching creative writing is ‘to heal’, in other words, creative writing is taught as a form of therapy, maybe more than is openly stated. Many teachers set therapeutic tasks so the author can learn and grow from the experience of writing about it.

  • Lockdown lessons: Teaching and working during the Covid-19 crisis

    February 23, 2024

    Some of the lessons I learnt during the Covid lockdown, about staying sane, being mindful and engaging with technology

  • Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice

    February 23, 2024

    On Covid-19 related research, for the British Educational Research Association.

  • 8 Ways To Teach spelling, punctuation and grammar

    February 23, 2024

    For many, teaching Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) is daunting. The stakes are high, and the weighting on SPaG in exams has raised anxieties. Here are some tried and tested approaches.

  • Teaching 1984 in the surveillance culture of schools

    February 23, 2024

    Teaching Orwell’s “1984” as a set text in an examination-obsessed and heavily surveilled school system.

  • Mindfulness and Creative Writing

    February 23, 2024

    How mindfulness can be used by creative writers to develop their practice and pedagogy

  • The Teachers’ Standards and English Teaching

    February 23, 2024

    Some interesting ideas about educating English teachers in relation to Teaching Standards set in 2012… However, these standards are less emphasized now than when I wrote this article.

  • Riding the Reciprocal Teaching Bus. A teacher’s reflections on nurturing collaborative learning in a school culture obsessed by results

    February 20, 2024

    My interactions with the teaching strategy known as Reciprocal Teaching (or Reciprocal Reading), which involves students learning to read collaboratively in small groups.

  • Aesthetic literacy and autobiography

    February 20, 2024

    How I became ‘aesthetically literate’, and used other artistic work to educate and heal myself. ‘Aesthetic literacy’ may even be more important than other forms of literacy because of its therapeutic dimensions.

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