Tag: robert abela
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Access for All…Terms and Conditions Apply

A lot of effort has been made in helping disadvantaged students achieve some sort of grade in recent years. However, as an LSE I have found that certain access arrangements have still been putting these children at a disadvantage. Most glaringly obvious is the fact that there is no faculty to allow under an official,…
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This Patchwork Life

Every day is multicultural! When we say “multicultural” our mind goes to the grand patchwork of society, a mixture of creeds, religions, nationalities, and so forth. Little do we appreciate that that is not the sole part of how much multi-culture affects our daily life. There is such a thing as microculture. We all know…
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Not for Employment but for Life

John Dewey once wrote that education and experience cannot be automatically equated to one another, and that is absolutely true to some extent. Education in itself is useful change that occurs in experience, the encounter with a different other (see Piaget and his theory of schemas). Non-useful change can be turned into useful if a…
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Weaponised Conceit and Gatekeeping in Education

I am not a petty person. Disorganised? A lot. Careless? Ask my wife. Loud, exuberant and opinionated? Is this blog not a clue? But petty? Not at all. I don’t think I have harboured any jealousy since I was a teenager, as ignorant as I was about how hard a life in a committed relationship…






