Papers
Hubris in Leadership:
A peril of unbridled intuition
How do unbridled intuition and hubris intersect?
Beyond Cleverness:
How to be smart without thinking
Being clever is not the same as being smart
Bad Education: Is vocational education for the less capable?
Unearthing the social attitudes about the relative merits of the academic and vocational
The Development of Learning Power: A new perspective on child development and early education
Understanding how the mix of accidental and intentional influence moulds young minds
Nirvana and Neuroscience: The Self-liberating Brain
Buddism says not everyone can win a gold medal at 1500 metres, but all of us have the potential to be excellent at life
Wisdom: Advanced Creativity
Wisdom inheres not so much in a quality of thinking of cognition, but in the nature of the underlying 'motivational vector' that drives cognition
Creative Glidespace
An interest in understanding creativity lives happily alongside a variety of highly creative and successful careers at ResCen
Building Learning Power: The Key to Great Coaching
The best coaches are the most humble: the ones who know they aren't perfect, and are always keen to learn more
Thinking At The Edge
How learning 20 dispositions may potentially be cultivated in educational settings
Turning Thinking on its Head: How bodies make up their minds
Embodied cognition and challenging the assumptions that underlie the dominant sedentary and disembodied approach to the high status bits of education
Expanding the capacity to learn: A new end for education
There is a widespread belief that being an effective, powerful, real life learner is a useful thing to be, and that twenty first century education should be aiming to help young people develop this genetic capacity to learn
The Virtues of Uncertainty: A Solid Education for the Learning Age
How are we going to raise standards? What are the most appropriate methods for testing students and when and how much?
School as an Epistemic Apprenticeship: The Case of Building Learning Power
Giving all children a more focused, practical and relevant send-off on their journeys through the rest of the 21st century
Involuntary Simplicity: Changing Dysfunctional Habits of Consumption
Why is it so difficult for 'voluntary simplicity' to become truly voluntary? This analysis makes clear why certain popular forms of campaigning and education are ineffective and looks to methodologies of self-transformation.
Rethinking Assessment: A Crib Sheet
Some Points and Questions (Ps and Qs) that might help us explore better ways to evidence the benefits that young people have gained from their time at school.