In today’s article Christina and John explore our relationships with our memories. The article builds from a recent piece (see link) written by Claudia Hammond (the author of The Art of Rest).
Paradise Lost – Memory, Health Inequality and Injustice
Françoise Hardy Contemplates Le Large Like No One Else.
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). […]
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 […]
Purposeless Movements: Stories of Humanity, Identity, Love and Paradise
On Friday, we went to the Traverse Theatre to see the Birds of Paradise production ‘Purposeless Movements’. The play is written by Birds of paradise co-Artistic Director Robert Softley Gale and stars […]
Fringe Show on Children and Young People As Artists of Social Change
Quick update on my shameless plea to collaborate in a Fringe show and low and behold I will be appearing in this show on the 24th of Aug in the Fringe link […]
Who Is Up for A Collaborative Joint Enterprise – New Structures For Co-Creation
Paul Mason’s been at it again. He has been writing in an inspirational way about what the solutions to our present frustration with the ‘system’ might be. In his article for the […]
The People's Republic Of Escotia 