I had the dawning realisation that I couldn’t do it, that I was not a superhuman; that being human was enough.
Category: Pedagogy
Children’s Education
Teachers who Make a Difference
Today I got a request for help from parents in Spain for ideas and support as they cope with homeschooling. Instead of sending lists of teacher manuals or student workbooks online, I thought back to my own experience of homeschooling during…
Bullying
Research by Guest Blogger Daniel MacDonald In the last few months Johanna Roberts and I have embarked on a new and challenging project investigating bullying, the acceptance of the individual and self acceptance. With Johanna travelling in the Americas and me travelling through Asia we had plenty of material for the visuals and the sense of place we […]
Getting Boys to Read
It is wonderful to have our first ever guest blog and it comes from local Sydney reader and writer; Daniel McDonald. Daniel is a recent graduate from The University of Sydney and he currently works as an author’s assistant and editor here at EC Services. Following a conversation with some of our readers about how to get […]
Passing It On
There are always those who just do that little bit extra to help others. You may not realise or notice or see it but the understated and almost invisible things these folk do go a long way to making a community function, helping people to carry on and giving others a sense that they are […]
A Wake Up Call
It’s good to get a wake up call. On a recent family holiday to Vanuatu I was privileged enough to get to visit a local community. The first wake up call was our guide telling us that we could throw our empty soft drink cans down in the grass. I was absolutely gobsmacked. Here was […]
Mansfield College, Oxford – The Place of Storytelling in Clinical Contexts
Recently I went to Mansfield College Oxford to present a paper at the 9th Interdisciplinary Storytelling Conference. My paper was on storytelling in clinical contexts and in it I referenced my work with my ‘Elephant in the Room’ series. The whole experience was an incredible one from start to finish. I met with other storytellers […]