Sue Roe’s In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art is a capacious, elegiac portrait of a place and a moment. It threads biography, cultural history, and close-looking criticism to argue that Montmartre — with its cafés, studios, cheap lodgings and convivial degradations — was not merely backdrop but active engine of a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
In an era dominated by digital media, media and information literacy—the competencies to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act with information across media—should be treated as a foundational skill alongside reading and numeracy. International frameworks frame media literacy as a teachable, scaffoldable competency that can and should be embedded into core curricula rather than treated … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
Jim Robison’s Slab Techniques is a concise, unpretentious primer that manages the useful trick of being both immediately practical and quietly provocative. Presented as part of the Ceramics Handbooks series, the book lays out slab building not as a single method but as a family of choices — a toolkit of decisions about clay, joinery, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins’ Skinny Legs and All reads like a party thrown by a philosopher with a taste for slapstick and haute cuisine — simultaneously exuberant and argumentative, mischievous and serious. The author is less interested in plotting than in setting ideas loose: the novel delights in collisions — between high and low culture, sacred and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Drunken Boat (Le Bateau ivre) by Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud’s Le Bateau ivre remains one of the electric high points of nineteenth-century poetry: a feverish voyage-vision that reads like an ecstatic manifesto of modern sensibility. Composed when Rimbaud was still a teenager (1871), the poem stages a radical collapse of the speaking subject into an object-world, using the figure of a wayward boat … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Drunken Boat (Le Bateau ivre) by Arthur Rimbaud
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell reads like a small, incandescent apocalypse: a compact, fiercely personal document in which a young poet brutalizes his own mythology and attempts — in the same breath — to transfigure failure into art. It is not a comfortable book. It is stubborn, querulous, visionary, and often unbearably intimate: part … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Revisionist Pedagogy – Unveiling Power: How Critical Theory Reshapes Literature, Culture, and Society, v.2
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 New Renaissance Mindset 