We can’t have enough conversations about what it means to create a better world. The pandemic we are currently facing requires addressing the state of the world through health, economic and psychological threats. Finding creative ways to address the everyday issues of living a good life are brought into sharp focus. However, we can feel … Read more
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” Dr Seuss.
From my experience, on reading the book, young people will usually ask why Clare wrote Why In The World Are We Here as a fictional atlas. They will be even confused that the records collected by two travellers, Eia and Whhat, has small insertions of the creatures interactions as they to try and figure out … Read more
Projects interactively compare past cultural ideologies and technologies with contemporary ones. Students learning that entrepreneurship was never ‘value-free’ or deserving of unquestioned imitation. As the historical evidence suggests, entrepreneurs were not successful because they offered a ‘sure thing’. Rather, they set up a productive ‘ecosystem’ in which they were able to explore different possibilities more successfully than their competitors.
How should educators make full use of primary historical sources which are becoming more and more accessible online ? How will these cultural assets impact on the creation of cultural values in a digital age?
Curriculum Maker projects are productive ways of creating educational content in partnership with independent authors.
The Young Philosophers’ Education Programme For Anxious Times Having a philosophical conversation about the state of the world is hazardous right now. As parents and teachers, we are caring for children while at the same time dealing with health, economic and psychological threats. In this anxiety-ridden context, reading and talking with our children and students … Read more
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Welcome, I’m Dr Josey De Rossi, Director of Fantastic Learning Systems. I set up FLS to share what I’ve learned about monetising an online creative learning business. This is because for all my artistic career I’ve sat between the job of creating theatre and teaching about it. Consequently, I’ve had decades practising what it means … Read more
In 2017, Maughn Gregory, the director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy For Children (IAPC), published a crucial article in Routledge’s International Perspectives series, History, Theory & Practice of Philosophy for Children. On reading it, I acknowledged that my knowledge of philosophy for children (P4C) is as nothing in comparison to those researching … Read more