Abstract. Critical Theory, originating with the Frankfurt School, offers educators analytic tools that move students beyond surface reading to interrogate how texts and media reproduce power. This article argues that integrating core critical concepts—ideology critique, the culture industry, reification, and reflexivity—into curriculum design produces measurable gains in critical literacy, civic agency, and equity-centred pedagogy. I … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Unveiling Power: How Critical Theory Reshapes Literature, Culture, and Society, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters is a lucid, humane intervention in a long-running scientific and philosophical conversation about what it means to be “intelligent.” Framed as reporting and cultural history rather than polemic, the book stitches vivid field scenes, archival excavation, and interviews into an argument: plants exhibit a range of sensing, signalling, and adaptive … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet reads like a distilled apprenticeship in attention. What began as a sequence of private replies (written between 1903–1908) to an earnest novice, Franz Xaver Kappus, has become a canonical pocket-manual for anyone who considers making their inner life the material of art. The book’s power lies not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Revisionist Pedagogy – Transforming Education: How Critical Theory Can Revolutionize the IB-MYP Experience
Critical theory offers a powerful framework for aligning the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB‑MYP) with democratic education, social justice, and critical inquiry. This article synthesizes foundational scholarship in critical pedagogy with implementation‑ready strategies for curriculum design, assessment, governance, and professional development. A phased pilot model, performance rubrics, and interdisciplinary planning structures are proposed to support sustainable reform. The article argues that when critical theory is operationalized through concrete classroom practices and measurable outcomes, the IB‑MYP can become a transformative space for cultivating critically conscious and socially engaged learners.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire presents itself as a confessional document — a long, elegiac first-person recollection — and through that frame Anne Rice re-animates the Gothic tradition for the late twentieth century. The novel is less a catalogue of monstrous deeds than an extended meditation on consciousness, loss, and moral solitude. Its vampires are not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy is a curious hybrid: part travelogue, part parable, part self-help tract. It reads like a modern myth packaged as a quest narrative — a protagonist (an everyman narrator) follows a trail of clues to an ancient manuscript in Peru and, in the process, encounters a sequence of “insights” promising a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing by Emily Reason
Emily Reason’s Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing arrives — or feels as if it arrives — at the crossroads between a how-to manual and a cultivated meditation on craft. On the surface it is a pedagogical text: clear sequences of steps, attentive photographs (or visual descriptions), and practical troubleshooting for the awkward moments every novice … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing by Emily Reason
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Tom Rath’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 occupies an odd but revealing niche at the intersection of self-help pragmatism and organizational psychology. Framed less as a conventional argument-driven monograph and more as a practical toolkit, the book’s modest ambition is its strength: it promises not a wholesale reinvention of the self, but a reorientation — to pay attention … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
Abstract Critical theory and critical pedagogy offer conceptual tools that, when translated into operational practices, can materially improve Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision. This article synthesizes scholarly and practitioner literatures on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), co-teaching, student participation in Individualized Education Program (IEP) processes, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), anti-ableism professional development, and … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Revolutionizing Special Education: How Critical Theory Transforms SEND Teaching Methods for Equity and Empowerment
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course presents itself less as a conventional how-to manual and more as a practiced teacher’s syllabus made beautifully portable. Its ambition—bridging the tactile minutiae of clay work with the larger problems of form, function and aesthetic intention—makes it an especially welcome book for the contemporary ceramicist who wants technique to serve … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Anthony Quinn’s Ceramic Design Course
The New Renaissance Mindset 