Use these inspiring images from Associate and photographer Jane Hewitt to help children and young people learn to stop and look at the world with new eyes.
Three-minute read
Noticing
Use these inspiring images from Associate and photographer Jane Hewitt to help children and young people learn to stop and look at the world with new eyes.
Three-minute read
8Way Thinking
What 8Way thinking is, where it came from and how it can be used to make even the most dismal-appearing of subject matters fascinating.
Five-minute read
The IIlusion of Peacefulness
Associate and environmentalist Professor Paul Clarke reminds us not to confuse clear skies with clean skies - there are bigger battles left to fight.
Three-minute read
Ten Wishes from 'Dirty Teaching' Author and Associate Juliet Robertson
Associate and outdoor learning expert Juliet Robertson puts forward her ten wishes for what she wants for children and the outside world with schools now closed due to the pandemic.
Five-minute read
Watching the World Like Never Before
Associate and governmental environmental and education advisor and thinker Professor Paul Clarke summarises the opportunity we have as a species given the current pandemic. But we need to stop relying on certainty.
Four-minute read
A New Beginning
Nancy is a former refugee we supported as she left Kakuma refugee camp and went to university in Uganda. In her latest blog for us, she reminds us that, although you can't empower everyone, you can always empower someone.
Two-minute read
It Isn’t What You Teach
Associate Will Ryan shares the eight common factors he has observed in classrooms where the teaching and learning makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
Five-minute read
Beyond the Bake Sale Pt I
Frustrated by the message that children seem to be receiving that a bake sale will make everything better in the world, Ian Gilbert wrote this for his book Independent Thinking.
Four-minute read
Perceive
A challenging and profound read from our Professor Paul Clarke on perception, scientific understanding and how Edgar Allan Poe might have stumbled across the Big Bang Theory.
Five-minute read
Keeping It Simple
Brace yourself as Professor Paul Clarke, long-time Associate, takes you through what we can learn from slime about creativity, complexity and creating a whole new, wholly natural, organisational model.
Five-minute read
Nature Is Still Here
Professor Paul Clarke, an Independent Thinking Associate and active environmentalist, offers some words of advice for turbulent times.
One-minute read
What Now for Education?
Associate Dr Debra Kidd is a passionate and informed advocate for a different sort of education. In this blog, she urges us to use recent world events to redefine what we mean by a 'good education'.
Four-minute read
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