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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”

“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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

My new book with the above title is now out (Feb 2020) with Palgrave Macmillan. You can access the book here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137388308 – get your librarian to buy a copy! Here’s an outline of what the book is about: School’s Out, Forever My new book Schooling and Social Identitysuggests that the current age-based system ofContinue reading “Schooling and Social Identity: Learning to Act Your Age in Contemporary Britain”

(originally posted here) In the moment when current school-leavers open their A-Level results letters today, new imagined futures will be conjured into existence, illuminating in new and sometimes unexpected ways the path that leads beyond the present. In this moment, young people may confirm imaginings of the future already well-forged through years of careful preparationContinue reading “Imagining the Future on A-Level Results Day”