The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how adults learn, retrain, and advance in workplaces and communities. Adult learners bring prior experience, competing time demands, and immediate vocational goals; the question is not whether to use AI, but how to deploy it so that it respects … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly (a.k.a. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Adult Education: A Compelling Pedagogical Imperative, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Masters: Earthenware arrives not as a dry handbook but as a museum catalogue written in the idiom of the studio. Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra, the volume assembles compact, richly illustrated mini-retrospectives that together argue for earthenware as a lively, experimental, and emotionally capacious medium rather than a mere step on … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Revisionist Pedagogy – Navigating the Pedagogical Horizon: Debating the Integration of AI in Elementary School Curricula, v.2
AI in Elementary Education — Responsible Integration As our world becomes increasingly digitized, elementary education faces a consequential choice: how to integrate artificial intelligence in ways that advance learning without compromising equity, privacy, or the teacher’s central role. This essay argues that AI should be adopted in elementary curricula only as a teacher-empowering tool governed … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Navigating the Pedagogical Horizon: Debating the Integration of AI in Elementary School Curricula, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees (original French L’homme qui plantait des arbres) is a tiny masterpiece of moral imagination: an elegant parable that compresses a century’s worth of catastrophe and repair into a single, quietly luminous tale. First published in 1953, the story trades the grandiloquence of polemic for the modesty of witness, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance returns in a thoughtful 25th-anniversary edition that reads less like a retread and more like a conversation re-opened across decades. This edition—issued by Greystone with a new foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer and an afterword by Bill McKibben—pairs Suzuki’s lucid synthesis of ecology and ethics with two contemporary interlocutors whose … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo’s Servant Leadership joins a growing conversation that stretches from Robert K. Greenleaf’s mid-twentieth-century formulation to contemporary debates about ethical authority, organizational stewardship, and leadership as moral formation. This compact volume is best read not as a polemic or a how-to manual but as a reflective and corrective intervention: it insists that leadership — … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret
Gilles Néret’s compact monograph—published in Taschen’s widely circulated Basic Art series under the title Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns—functions less as a revisionist manifesto than as a lucid, image-forward argument for a familiar claim: that Manet inaugurates modern painting by refusing the consolations of academic narrative and classical imitation. The central … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Earth Fire Soul – The Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea
Earth Fire Soul is less a conventional catalogue and more a sustained meditation on making. The book stages Korean ceramics as a living conversation among three inevitable forces — the clay (earth), the kiln (fire), and the human presence that lends works their inward breath (soul). Organized around the masterpieces held by the National Museum … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Earth Fire Soul – The Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
The Penland Book of Ceramics reads like a field diary kept at the intersection of craft pedagogy and artistic confession. Edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott and assembled from the teaching tradition of the Penland School of Crafts, this handsome volume (Lark Books, 2003) aims not simply to catalogue techniques but to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques edited by Deborah Morgenthal and Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab-Built Ceramics by Coll Minogue
Coll Minogue’s Slab-Built Ceramics presents itself — and persuades — as more than a how-to manual: it is a meditation on process, an argument about the expressive possibilities lodged in a single, humble slab of clay. Read as a craft text, it is pedagogically rigorous; read as an artist’s tract, it is provocatively poetic. Read … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab-Built Ceramics by Coll Minogue
The New Renaissance Mindset 