Diane Ravitch on Super-Edu’s

I’m having a problem with whom Diane Ravitch has referred to as the Super-Edu’s. She’s talking about them in an institutional sense – the unelected Superintendents of Education that some States in the US employ (at great cost) tasked with

Think Tank discussion: natural world vs. social world

This morning I offered this Ecotone paper as reading material for a Think Tank discussion at my university. As I was settling into what I rapidly came to realise was a kind of benign ‘dummy-run-mini-micro-viva’ comprising two Professors and my

The Ecotone article, rhizomic structures and media education

This post carries on from the previous one on the relation between ecotones and design education by Pendleton-Jullian. She elaborates a metaphor that might be useful for visualising the terrain of media education. Scientifically speaking, the ecotone is an ecological

Ann Pendleton-Jullian & design education

I’ve just been reading Ann Pendleton-Jullian’s paper called: Design Education and Innovation Ecotones – an esoteric sounding document. However, it has been one of the most inspiring things I’ve read over the past few weeks. She is an educator in