Angelica Pozo’s Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing reads at first like a craftsman’s primer and, on closer inspection, performs the subtler work of a modest modus operandi. It is both a handbook and a primer in temper — practical, kindly, and quietly persuasive. Where many how-to volumes insist on mastery as a destination, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
Angelica Pozo’s Making and Installing Handmade Tiles sits at an interesting crossroads: part technical manual, part artist’s manifesto, and part visual essay. The book announces itself as a practical companion for the person at the wheel or the trowel, but its most enduring achievement is how it insists that technique and meaning are inseparable. The … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Making and Installing Handmade Tiles by Angelica Pozo
Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Tomorrow’s Change-makers: Applying Critical Theory in Primary Education, v2
Critical theory — here understood as a set of tools for noticing power, asking who benefits from a given idea, and imagining fairer alternatives — can be translated into developmentally appropriate practice in primary schools. When paired with teacher supports, intentional assessment, and community engagement, it cultivates children who are observant, empathetic, and ready to … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Tomorrow’s Change-makers: Applying Critical Theory in Primary Education, v2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes. by Irene Poulton
Irene Poulton’s Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes reads, at first glance, like a practical compendium; read closely, it reveals itself as a meditation on the paradox at the heart of raku work — the persistent human desire to name, measure, and reproduce a process whose aesthetic power depends on chance. She gives … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes. by Irene Poulton
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) is a pocket-sized fable whose deceptive simplicity disguises a finely tuned moral and aesthetic practice. Written for children yet animated by the author’s keen observational eye, the tale endures because it compresses a complex set of cultural anxieties — discipline and transgression, class and rural economics, the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher reads like a concentrated experiment in atmosphere: a short story that refuses to be small, folding psychological pathology, architectural metaphor, and sonic lyricism into a single, inexorable collapse. Poe does not so much tell a tale as stage an experience — one in which language, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” reads like a virtuoso exercise in controlled obsession. In a compact, theatrical narrative of no more than a few hundred lines, Poe engineers an atmosphere so resonant that the poem’s central motifs—loss, memory, and the unanswering voice of doom—saturate the reader long after the final refrain. It is less a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Educators: Revolutionizing Teacher Training with Critical Theory
Critical theory equips teacher education with a principled, practice-oriented framework for preparing educators who can recognize and disrupt inequitable power structures in schools and society. When paired with culturally relevant pedagogy and sustained, practice-based professional learning, critical theory does more than motivate ethical teaching: it produces measurable shifts in instructional practice, curriculum design, and teacher … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Empowering Educators: Revolutionizing Teacher Training with Critical Theory
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a study in compression: a few pages of prose that map, with surgical precision, the anatomy of guilt. Unlike long Gothic romances that luxuriate in setting and backstory, Poe offers a single, claustrophobic motion — the narrator’s descent from confident rationalization into seizure-like confession — and trusts that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is often taught as the archetype of the short, perfectly executed revenge tale; read closely, it is also a miniature philosophical probe into pride, performative identity, and the moral elasticity permitted by first-person confession. In under 3,000 words Poe stages a slow, elegant murder that doubles as a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The New Renaissance Mindset 