Copernicus Wiffledown was much admired— a well-to-do gentleman who kept a pouch of wrapped surprises beneath his coat: a mitten when the north wind came, a loaf for someone’s sudden hunger. They called him Scrooge on Christmas Day— not for keeping, but because he counted gifts and hoarded them until the town could breathe.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Republic by Plato
Plato’s The Republic remains one of those rare books that functions simultaneously as a founding text of political thought, a work of moral psychology, and a sustained exercise in dramatic philosophy. Written as a dialogue with Socrates at its center, it pursues a single, seemingly straightforward question — “What is justice?” — and from that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Republic by Plato
Revisionist Poetry – As I read this, v.5 – (intimate mood)
I’m down — I keep them close:my favorite pessimists, bedside friends,Kurt’s sharp laugh, Rod’s exposed heart.I study their habits to learn how not to break. love of others,love of self:I admit I confuse the two,give away my warmth and keep the ache,each misdirected like a misaddressed letter. I’m up sometimes,not by bravado but by accident,lifted … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – As I read this, v.5 – (intimate mood)
Revisionist Pedagogy – Awakening Wisdom: How Critical Theory and Indigenous Pedagogies Co-Create Inclusive Education
Critical theory offers powerful tools for interrogating how knowledge, power, and identity operate within educational systems. Its emphasis on social justice, historical inequities, and the dismantling of dominant paradigms makes it a productive—though not sufficient—framework for supporting the integration of Indigenous pedagogies in contemporary education (Apple, 2013; Freire, 1970). When combined with de-colonial commitments and … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Awakening Wisdom: How Critical Theory and Indigenous Pedagogies Co-Create Inclusive Education
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink’s Drive reads at first like a corrective essay to a long domestic argument: for decades, the dominant picture of human motivation has been the carrot-and-stick economy of rewards and punishments; Pink insists we have the wrong map. The book’s central—and elegantly simple—claim is that for tasks requiring creativity, judgement, and sustained engagement, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Revisionist Poetry – As I read this, v.4 – (mournful mood)
I am downwith late-afternoon companions:Vonnegut in the small rooms of irony,McKuen with paper moons in his hands. love of others,love of selfhang together like a last scarf,intertwined, misdirected,folded over the silence. I rise — for a moment —only to the wishof clouds, slow and gone,holding the shape of absence.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The 20th Century Art Book from Phaidon Press
Phaidon's The 20th Century Art Book presents itself as an atlas of modernity: a compact compendium that tries, with admirable audacity, to put the century’s dizzying artistic revolutions into the reader’s hands. It is not a monograph, nor an exhaustive history; it is a curator’s pocket guide, a series of literary vignettes paired with image-plates, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The 20th Century Art Book from Phaidon Press
Revisionist Poetry – As I read this, v.3 – (comic mood)
I’m down —members-only club:Kurt (deadpan martini),Rod (velvet-valentine).They pass out pessimism like party favours. love of others,love of self:both placed on the buffet —someone mislabeled the plates,someone ate the wrong dessert. I’m up!(brief stage light)only to the wishof clouds — RSVP: maybe.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Art Book from Phaidon Press
Phaidon’s The Art Book is not a book that seeks to be read from first page to last as a single sustained argument; it is an atlas of encounters. Its achievement is simple and ambitious at once: to compress the dizzying plurality of visual practice into a portable, democratic form. The editors do not attempt … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Art Book from Phaidon Press
Revisionist Poetry – As I read this, v.2
I’m down with chosen company:a wry one, a velvet one —Kurt Vonnegut,Rod McKuen.love of others,love of selftangle like scarvesthrown on a chair —intertwined, misdirected.I’m up, for a moment,lifted only to the wishof clouds and the smallcold of a window.
The New Renaissance Mindset 