learning objectives
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.
(more…) 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
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.
on work, overwork, folly, and resistance
Last year I worked every weekend from mid-March to the end of September.
(more…)31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, seekers, radical education as seeking learning outcomes, and punk
From 2020: time for the annual pilgrimage …
(not to be confused with the homonymous Canadian politician, Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, Canadian swimmer, assorted other sportsmen, etc.)
It is time for the annual pilgrimage.
As is traditional, this post is a “sticky” one for a whole academic term, all the way to its end and the end of the calendar year. It contains various kinds of “stickiness” played out in four Acts:
I. revisiting 2017
II. 2018 and III. Campbellian education in action
IV. 2019 and learning outcomes.
Like previous pilgrimages, this year’s one adds more Stations to its rambling Way of Sorrows.
2020: “IT’S LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED”
This year’s contextual frame: online teaching in pandemic times. (more…)
Juliet O’Brien 