Tag: schools

Start with the Soil – Reflections for Educators with Giles Barrow

Giles Barrow

We began the series with the concept of natality – birth. Invariably overlooked by its more familiar partner – mortality – the importance of natality is most present in the process of education. Natality is all about renewal and what more obvious a way does a society engage in renewal but through how it educates the next generation.

We looked at the features of natality, the principal writers and its link with education. We also focused on the Cycle of Development as a powerful educational model. Based on the early work of Pam Levin, extended by Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson, we considered how development is essentially cycle of renewal spanning a lifetime.

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Working with Anger – Mike Trier

Mike Trier

I’ve worked for many years with teenagers labelled as angry, and poorly behaved, first as a teacher, and currently as a counsellor. I’ve developed ‘Working with Anger’ groups, aimed at teenage boys. We make sure they feel heard. And then we support them as they begin to take more control over their lives, even under difficult circumstances in school and at home.

We don’t have a magic wand, but we’ve a track record in helping young men engage with school more effectively!

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