A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #3

Oh dear! I do not seem to be doing well with these progress reports. It’s been almost 12 months since  my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! Previously on Pilgrim’s Progress… As I had previously noted, 2017 was the year where most of my writing was going to take place. It culminated in a succession of first […]

A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #2

Oh my, it has been 7 months since my last blog post and 19 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! The Road to Hell… I had the best of intentions for using this blog to record my progress. Instead, I have kept a private journal (in Microsoft Word) of everything that has been happening […]

When Ideas Sing

But the good ways of reading today succeed in treating a book as you would treat a record you listen to, a film or TV programme you watch … There is no question of difficulty or understanding: concepts are exactly like sounds, colours or images, they are intensities which suit you or not, which are […]

A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #1

But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange (Shakespeare, 1610, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2) I was originally going to call this blog post Xenophobia, as in an irrational fear or dislike of the unknown. Unfortunately, it has since become a highly emotive word to describe certain discriminatory practices and inflammatory language. […]

Liminality

A Liminal Pilgrimage

As readers of this blog may be aware, I am currently undertaking a Doctorate in Education (EdD) at Canterbury Christ Church University. I am on Module 4 (of 7) which goes by the title of “Contemporary Issues in Educational Research” which was superbly faciliated by Dr Judy Durrant and Dr Peter Grimes. For the assignment […]