Konstantin Stansilavski is not a name you hear too often when it comes to learning, development, talent or professional training – but it should be! Stanislavski was an acclaimed character actor from Russia who went on to build a career as one of the world’s eminent theatre directors before his death in 1938. But Stanislavski is remembered…
I’m not a fan of reality TV – although I get the allure. Seeing good-looking yet otherwise ordinary folk in desperate competition for the affections of a stranger, to be trapped in starvation or to be reduced to tears by a personal trainer has just enough interest in it to have us abandon our principles.…
There’s some nonsense in the learning and development space about learning styles with as many as seven of them up for grabs. Apparently it’s useful to determine whether you’re visual (spatial) , aural (auditory-musical), verbal (linguistic), physical (kinesthetic), logical (mathematical), social (interpersonal) or solitary (intrapersonal) learner. Let me tell you right now, it’s not useful! Pigeon holing yourself as a…
I have two competing views about educational research: that we spend far too much time and money researching aspects of the educative pursuit that have little or no impact or meaning. No more studies about homework please – the truth is already known. that when we find relevant and confronting truths within our research, that…
