Patrick Alexander and Jacques-Olivier Perche Robert Smithson, Rocks and Mirror Square II (1971) Is professional development actually developing teachers, or is it quietly grinding teachers down? In the contemporary educational landscape, professional development presents itself as both a moral obligation and a professional necessity. Teachers are told that effectiveness must be constantly demonstrated, that improvementContinue reading “Why Professional Development Is Failing Teachers and What It Erases”
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Do Teachers Dream of Electric Sheep?
Artificial Intelligence and the Intellectual Wellbeing of Teachers Professor Patrick Alexander Jacques-Olivier Perche Back in February 2024 we shared our most recent thinking on the concept of intellectual wellbeing, or noetic syntonia. Around the same time, we were reflecting on the role that generative artificial intelligence has held in learning landscapes over the last year or so. InContinue reading “Do Teachers Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Adventures in the Metaverse
As my research interest in the educational prospects of the metaverse grows, I’m interested to explore new and innovative ways that users are engaging with VR/AR to think education differently. So far, on the contrary, most mainstream education platforms in metaversal spaces are conservative in their reproduction of very traditional educational spaces, like the schoolContinue reading “Adventures in the Metaverse”
Call for Papers: RAI Anthropology and Education conference, June 2024
Hi folks, here’s a link to the panel on the metaverse/AR/VR and education at the upcoming RAI conference on Anthropology and Education. Please come and join us! Click here to submit a paper by 13th Jan! Short Abstract: This panel will explore the emerging educational provocations of virtual reality/augmented reality platforms in the wider contextContinue reading “Call for Papers: RAI Anthropology and Education conference, June 2024”
Virtual Ecologies of Learning
“I know Kung Fu”: Educational Misadventures in the Metaverse If you know kung fu, how do you know it? In the 1991 Hollywood film The Matrix, the plot revolves around characters who live in a visceral and dystopian reality, having awoken from the sedation of a computer-generated reality in which all other humans unknowingly exist.Continue reading “Virtual Ecologies of Learning”
Intellectual wellbeing in international schools
Follow the links below to explore a series of articles that I wrote for the International Schools Network on how intellectual wellbeing can positively impact teaching and learning in international contexts. The key is to link practice and practice architectures in a critical way that leads to transformation. Start by becoming attentive to practice andContinue reading “Intellectual wellbeing in international schools”
Intellectual Wellbeing: The Pursuit of Freedom in the Professional Learning of Teachers
Patrick Alexander Jacques-Olivier Perche What does it mean to teach well? What does it feel like to be a good teacher? In this short article, we wish to pose these questions as a way of exploring the concept of intellectual wellbeing, which we define as the positive sense of self derived from an authentic engagement with theContinue reading “Intellectual Wellbeing: The Pursuit of Freedom in the Professional Learning of Teachers”
Intellectual Wellbeing
Follow the link below to explore some recent thinking about the importance of intellectual wellbeing in the professional lives of teachers! https://medium.com/@patrickgalexander/intellectual-wellbeing-the-pursuit-of-authenticity-in-the-professional-learning-of-teachers-8c42dd0ea814
School’s Out Forever
Here’s a recent talk I gave for the Oxford Brookes ‘Brave New World’ seminar series. In the talk I explore what new possibilities there may be to re-imagine schooling after the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, I argue that it’s time to move away from age- and phase-based schooling limited to assessed curricula and the physicalContinue reading “School’s Out Forever”
Schooling and Social Identity: new podcast
https://www.educationonfire.com/education-on-fire/145-schooling-and-social-identity-with-dr-patrick-alexander/ I had a great time recently chatting with Mark Taylor of Education on Fire about Schooling and Social Identity. It’s an important time to be asking critical questions about schooling and socialisation. Is the current age-based system of organising learning in schools in need of radical change? Dr. Patrick Alexander from Oxford Brookes University sharesContinue reading “Schooling and Social Identity: new podcast”
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