By John M Davis Today, April 6th 2018 , the ever stylish Françoise Hardy is releasing a new album on Parlophone. Her 28th French album is entitled, “Personne d’autre” (see link here). […]
Françoise Hardy Contemplates Le Large Like No One Else.
The People's Republic Of Escotia
This blog has been set up to discuss social issues of the day that impact on people's lives in Scotland. The editor, John Davis aspires for readers to focus on, discuss and challenge the ideas that are presented in the blog. The blog is open to anyone who wants to write about social justice, the indyref, childhood etc. and welcomes contributions from people who have something to say about life in Scotland; what ever age they are and what ever back ground. The editor will support less experienced writers and contributors who have never written before. Feel free to send suggestions for posts/articles to john.davis@ed.ac.uk
Oh Dear Me, A Childhood ‘Thrawn’ and ‘Chided’, Requires An Education System Less Ill-Divided! By Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis
Christina Milarvie Quarrell is a Poet Photographer Artist born and raised in the Govanhill Gorbals communities. Her work celebrates the values of people before profit. Art is her passion and she utilises […]
1. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: The Professional Context:
John Davis is the Professor of Childhood Inclusion at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of the SSSC Taking the First Steps report that evaluated the impact of the BA Childhood […]
2. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Critiquing Technical Rational Ideas of ‘Quality’
This post by John Davis continues our discussion concerning pedagogy in order to explain the political context of our work. It questions rigid notions of ‘quality’ that impose inflexible ‘norms’ on our […]
3. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Enabling Holistic, Anti-discriminatory, Socially Just and Inclusive Pedagogy:
The first post in this series of 3 posts argued that pedagogy is the space where we analyse, enquire, evaluate and reflect on the way we work with children. It criticised approaches […]
Let The Flowers Bloom Part 1: Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis
Following on from their May 20th post which explained the dangers of ‘Man Up’ patriarchy and analysed the context of male illnesses of despair, Christina and John examine the impact of patriarchy […]
Let The Flowers Bloom Part 2:
Let The Flowers Bloom Part 2: Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis Part 1 of this post discussed the disabling, violent and controlling effect of patriarchy in male-female relationships. It posed questions […]
