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The trouble with Shakespeare, or Should everything be made simple?

Oct 26, 2019 | Category: English

I'm regularly inundated by unsolicited emails from folk hoping I'll endorse their products. Recently, I received one asking me if I'd be interested in writing about a collaboration between the softwar...

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The problem with dead white men - a reply to Mary Bousted

Jun 09, 2018 | Category: Featured

Apparently, Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU teaching union has announced that England is “hurtling forward to a rosy past” with its emphasis on knowledge.She is reported as having sai...

#English literature #Shakespeare #broad and balanced curriculum #powerful knowledge #Christopher Hitchens #Mary Bousted

Castle Shakespeare: Why study the Bard?

Jul 23, 2017 | Category: English

Let me give you, let me share with you, the City of Invention. For what novelists do... is to build the Houses of the Imagination, and where houses cluster together there is a city... Let us look roun...

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How knowledge is being detached from skills in English

Jun 18, 2013 | Category: English

I don't normally do this. In fact, I haven't put up a post by anyone else since last August. But in this case Joe Kirby has expressed my own thoughts so articulately that there seemed little point try...

#bloom's taxonomy #knowledge #skills #Shakespeare #Joe Kirby

What to know: the importance of cultural capital

Apr 04, 2012 | Category: reading

Let's face it, we need to know to stuff if we're going to have anything resembling a successful life. But what is it we need to know? As an English teacher I have a fair bit of fairly arcane knowledge...

#knowledge #Daisy Christodolou #Reading #cultural capital #Janet Street Porter #Shakespeare