Author Archives: drseanphd

I was in the middle of writing the introduction of this week’s blog post, which was meant to be part 1 of a three-part series on why school sucks, when I received an email from a colleague that linked to an article about the current review of the New South Wales curriculum and the notionContinue reading “School reform movements and inevitable inaction”

This week’s post essentially continues where the last post left off. In last week’s post I wrote about the nature of constructivism and how teachers often misconstrue constructivist learning with student-centred teaching and how constructivism is a theory of learning that doesn’t necessarily tell us much about teaching at all, despite the teachers who thinkContinue reading “Teaching Strategies Part 1: The nature of ‘student improvement’”

This is something I have wanted to write about for a while, which is why I have made it the first post.  Specifically, it came to be when reading the book, The Knowledge Illusion.  It occurred to me how little we actually know about the things we think we know about. Sloman and Fernbach useContinue reading “Constructivism, social constructivism and what teachers think they know about learning”

Welcome to my blog.  If you’ve read the about section, then you already know about me. This blog is an attempt to give my students, and anyone else who is interested in educational thinking and discourse, more of an in-depth insight into some ideas prevalent in the educational domain. This is an alternative to myContinue reading “Maximising Student Potential: An Introduction”