Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

I've blogged quite a few times about stories that I first taught about years ago which were possibly going to happen by 2100, but which are happening right now. or in the next decade or so. These formed part of the broad glaciation topic which formed part of the Cambridge 'A' level that I taught back in the 1980s. One of them related to the effect of shrinking sea ice, which would increase the albedo in Polar regions and lead to a further reduction in sea ice.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

I love talking about leadership and am always intrigued to review what I have written on the topic over the years. Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I revisited another 2019 blog post. The focus was on efficacy, an often misunderstood topic in the education space. Take a listen on Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

I've been contributing to the Geographical Association's journals for some years now, and have contributed to every one of them at some point. Physical copies of the GA's journals arrived this week - not 'Geography' yet. If you are a subscriber to Primary Geography you will have been able to read my article on inclusion / exclusion in rural / urban spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Ive always known my educational goals: enroll in college as a humanities major, explore the literature I love and eventually attend law school. Im a junior in college now, closer to the end of that journey than the start. My journey hasnt changed, but the environment surrounding it has. In the last 10 years, enrollment in humanities majors has decreased by 17 percent.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Via Economist Impact. The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) measures food security (of course). Choose any country to get a very detailed report on how it fares on the criteria. There are 4 criteria.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Thanks to Rob Chambers for the tipoff to a Conversation article on flowers , and the efforts to meet the demand around Valentine's Day which leads to millions of air freighted blooms from African nations being imported to countries such as the UK. Louise Ellis authored one of the GA's KS3 Toolkit books called 'A Thorny Issue' on this issue, and the employment that is created, plus some environmental issues.

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