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Following on from an earlier post, this post seeks to complete the exploration of a 2019 paper by Bram de Muynck (and a companion paper appearing [...]
August 26, 2021
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Earlier in August I made a vain attempt to uproot an area about two foot square of the rhizomatic mat that sustains my lily of the valley patch. [...]
August 26, 2021
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Yesterday saw the end of the consultation period for the ITT Market Review. After weeks of being too livid to write anything on the consultation [...]
August 22, 2021
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These pictures are probably enough to evoke what I want to say in this post. In one of the essays that Laurie Lee wrote in I Can’t Stay [...]
August 20, 2021
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The concept of street-level bureaucrats was coined by Lipsky to describe those public service leaders who have a degree of discretion in the way [...]
August 20, 2021
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This post follows on directly from the one I wrote recently on professional virtues for teachers. I applied it to teachers because the original [...]
August 12, 2021
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It is generally a good idea, when reading or studying the scriptures and making decisions for our lives within the context of our divine calling, [...]
August 12, 2021
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One of the challenges of educating teachers in the current climate is to get beyond the highly pragmatic and technical language of the Core [...]
August 9, 2021
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We had left a country which had added 85 millions to its population in one hundred years and which still has 20 acres for each man, woman and [...]
August 8, 2021
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Five years ago, I wrote a post about a wonderful garden in the town of Garda that belonged to a small block of flats just off the main road up to [...]
August 7, 2021