This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blogs that comes from my reading of Pierre Bourdieu. Others will deal more explicitly with some of his key themes. In this first blog, however, I want to address what he offers as a kind of throw away remark. A remark thatContinue reading “Constructing and Controlling Common Sense”
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Facing a ‘Pandemic’ of Sexual Abuse
A speaker on the radio earlier last week, discussing the recent review of child sexual abuse across the UK and the recommendations contained in the report, claimed that we are facing a pandemic of sexual abuse. I was horrified by this statement, not because of the situation it purported to describe, but because of theContinue reading “Facing a ‘Pandemic’ of Sexual Abuse”
Teaching Critical Thinking or Teaching Empathy
I noted over the last week that the government is suggesting that one of responses to the recent riots should be to teach young people, from the earliest possible age within schools, how to engage critically with social media and how to recognise false news. Effectively this is a call to introduce critical thinking andContinue reading “Teaching Critical Thinking or Teaching Empathy”
Martin Stringer Quartet 