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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: 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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sabbatical project reading

If books are brilliant because they are full of wonder, consider how wonderful the bookshelf is. More than a tool—akin to how the book is more than a technology—the bookshelf organises reading, knowledge, and knowledge-making. It’s physically solid and has a comforting fixity. It’s movable, expandable, and contractable. It can be multiplied, encased, left to float on walls, become a room, be the base building block of a building. And still, a single shelf can be a library in its own right; and any horizontal surface can be a shelf, provided that it holds books.

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