educational leadership

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It is the season of exams and marking. For all of us higher education people, it’s a time of procrastination, as well as the usual and expected work, overwork, and unnecessary extra work which is entirely your own fault. That is to say: as well as them, and because of them, in what is sometimes a vicious circle and sometimes a creative constructive critical virtuous spiral.

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September pedagogical motivation

An idea board, collected and curated over the last year or so, in reverse chronological order from today back to mid-August 2023. May contain sequences, nonsequiturs, and serendipitous juxtapositions. May it provide inspiration and aspiration, ideally at least one giggle and one groan because they’re vital for your breathing.

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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: learning as radical pedagogy

It is time for the annual pilgrimage.

While the pace of this blog might vary through a calendar year, Ken Campbell Day remains a constant at the threshold of the educational year.

2024

INTELLIGENT LIFE

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resources for French

This is a slightly more up-to-date version of the old outils utiles (2010). It was a version of my original 2003 curated collection of resources, and revised in turn through 2012-23: FREN 101 (ARCHIVE, 2013-18), FREN 102 (ARCHIVE, 2013-18), FREN 101 & 102 (2018-19, up to the March-April 2020 COVID-19 onlinising “pivot”), and UBC Canvas course sites (2020-24, access restricted to UBC Vancouver students taking these courses). These reference resources are primarily intended for university French language classes from CEFR levels A1 to B2; there’s some overlap with resources at the C1 level, for writing in French about literature (2017 version here). Thanks to JB, a student from summer 2023’s FREN 202 (CEFR A2) who asked for a version that’s available and accessible in the longer term: long live free open knowledge, mutual aid, and sustainability!

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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, the radical education of seekers

It is time for the annual pilgrimage.

(Our Ken is not to be confused with the homonymous Canadian politician, Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, Canadian swimmer, assorted other sportsmen, a plastic doll, etc.)

This post is a collage accumulating in annual accretion: Campbellian education in action, learning-centred learning, every year another Station continues the post’s rambling Way of Sorrows.

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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, seekers, radical education as seeking learning outcomes, and punk

And so the great wheel turns and it is time to celebrate St Ken’s Day again.

Time for the annual pilgrimage that is the start of this Happy New Year for people in the formal cycle of learning, from crèche and kindergarten to university; and for people outside it as learning, a life of learning, and a meaningful life are for all.

For all who are or become “people” because they are #passionately #innovatively #transformatively #sustainably #engaged in the great #creative #ValueInvestment #community that is life itself. Your own life right here right now, and others around and above and beyond and below it, and the after and the before, and whatever and whoever is to the sides and out of sight. All the water in which that great wheel turns: a wild free flow with unpredictable currents.

May our rivers never run dry.

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