Seth Godin is sharing his thoughts about education and they are very stimulating thoughts! His ebook (which is free) is entitled “Stop Stealing Dreams“. The basic thesis is that our education system is designed to produce compliant producers and consumers. Compliant producers/workers tend to end up in hourly paid jobs and with the globalisation of [...]
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Stop stealing dreams
Posted in books, education, from the reading room on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The importance of stories – fictional stories
Posted in books, creativity, education, from the living room, from the reading room, life, narrative, psychology, writing on September 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m a great fan of stories. In fact, I think we understand ourselves and others by using narrative, and the central way in which I work as a doctor is to hear people’s stories, and help them to change them from stories of being stuck or in chaos, to stories of flow, and flourishing and [...]
September – time to think about learning
Posted in creativity, education, from the living room, life on September 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I remember taking part in a small group once which opened with asking everyone to say which month was their favourite month, and why. One of my colleagues said September because that was the beginning of the Academic Year. I liked that response and I’ve always remembered it. I have many criticisms of our educational [...]
Penn Reading Project
Posted in art, education on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Pennsylvania usually sets a book for their new students to read over the summer before term begins. It’s a way of introducing their freshmen to academic life. This year, however, they’ve set a painting to be studied instead of a book. They’ve chosen the local artist, Thomas Eakins and his 1875 painting [...]
Two mindsets – fixed and growth
Posted in books, education, from the reading room, life, psychology on August 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Stanford university psychologist, Carol Dweck has published a book entitled “Mindset. The New Psychology of Success” (ISBN 978-0-345-47232-8). Guy Kawasaki posted about it, and wrote a commendation which is printed on the front page. And Stanford Magazine did an article about it last year. She’s identified two “mindsets” in relation to how people approach challenges [...]
The importance of the person in medicine
Posted in education, from the consulting room, from the reading room, health on February 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sometimes these days, with the dominant biomedical model of health and illness it can seem like people don’t actually matter. The individual stories of patients are dismissed as anecdotes and treatments are divided into one of two categories “proven” or “unproven” on the basis of statistical analyses of clinical trials (experiments on pre-selected groups of [...]
How we learn – teaching and training
Posted in creativity, education, from the reading room on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pick the Brain has a great post about teaching and learning. It’s called The Movie Director’s Guide to Effective Teaching. In it, Victor Stachura, the author refers to William Glasser’s theories. Well, this is new to me. I’ve never heard of William Glasser. If you have, what do you think about his ideas and his [...]
If it’s not fun, it’s hard to learn
Posted in education, from the reading room on January 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is an intersting author. He’s promoted the concept of ‘flow’ experiences from his research into happiness. This article by him is about education. It has turned out that mass education is more difficult to achieve than we had anticipated. To close the gap between the rather dismal reality and earlier expectations, researchers and [...]
Improving health by aiming at something else….
Posted in education, from the consulting room, from the living room, health, life, science, Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now, here’s an interesting study. It’ll soon be published in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health. There’s a way of considering the amount of health benefit from an intervention. It’s to assess the number quality-adjusted life-year gains per dollar invested. That is, not just benefits in terms of greater life expectancy, [...]
How we cope – learning from the movies. Part 4
Posted in education, from the consulting room, from the viewing room, health, life, movies, narrative on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We all cope in different ways. In this series we’re looking at ways of coping in parts 3, 4 and 5. In part 3 we looked at the activist way of coping. Now let’s consider control as a strategy. The world can be a very scary place. For many people the events that occur in [...]
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