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I realise that it is way past time that I wrote a blog for this website. But I find it hard to know where to start and what to write. From my reading so far, I understand that some people have found covid-19 lockdown a time of immense creativity because they have suddenly found themselves […]

Recently I was in the situation of teaching a group of adults to make 4-strand plaits for the strings of poi. While I was teaching them to make a pair of complete poi each, I had identified that the 4-strand plait would be the most challenging task in the whole exercise. The occasion was a […]

Recently I again had a short-term job as a trainer for a nationally produced and prescribed programme focused on a specific and, necessarily, standardised series of events. In the past, my role has generally been as an educator. So, appointment to this training role led me to think again about the differences between being a […]

I Have to Do Research – Where Do I Start? Lots of us research things, whether it is researching views on a particular issue for my social issues interest group, researching the historical or social background for a dance or other artwork, finding out what people in our workplace would like to have included in […]

In my books I discuss at least 19 different ways of knowing. My thinking about ways of knowing has, of course, continued since I wrote the books. I see knowing as occurring in many ways, in many different situations and contexts, and often on several levels at the same time. Because of the non-verbal and […]

For anyone checking out this site, yes, I am still here and still checking the site regularly. Clearly I’m not one who manages to add another blog every week but I definitely am still here along with my books!

Thoughts on recent travel and teaching at an International Christian Dance Fellowship conference held in the University of Ghana and hosted by the Christian Dance Fellowship branches of Ghana and Ireland. People from 12 different countries outside of Ghana attended and many had made it there quite miraculously, without apparently the financial or other means […]

I am currently completing a computing course – self-paced but very tightly prescribed in terms of what you can do, when and where (a contradiction in terms already perhaps?). This is a common pattern for standards based learning in cases such as this national certificate. In this approach, there is often only one way of […]

I am, hopefully, nearing the end of a long learning journey. On 1 September 2015, I slipped in the wet outside and broke my left ankle – 2 bones, 1 chipped bone, 1 dislocated foot. I was on my own at home. I find it interesting that, in the midst of this traumatic and painful […]

What have I been doing? It has been months since I posted a blog but, for more than three of those months, I was traveling around the world teaching, dancing, looking, listening, experiencing, talking, and praying. Travel and People For most of the travel I was on my own, and for some I was with […]