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
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.
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
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
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 – 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 Pedagogy – Computational Creativity in Schools: A Practical, Ethical, and Pedagogical Rewrite. (a.k.a. Exploring Computational Creativity: Bridging Art and Technology, v.2)
Introduction As digital technologies reshape art and learning, Computational Creativity—the use of algorithmic systems to generate, augment, or inform creative work—is now central to contemporary arts education. This essay defines the field, gives concrete classroom-ready applications, addresses operational ethics, and proposes assessment and policy steps so schools can thoughtfully adopt computational practices without sacrificing equity, … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Computational Creativity in Schools: A Practical, Ethical, and Pedagogical Rewrite. (a.k.a. Exploring Computational Creativity: Bridging Art and Technology, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (first published 1952) is less a tightly argued treatise than a rhetorically polished manual of moral encouragement. Its long-lived popularity — it has been read, recommended, parodied and debated for decades — rests on a simple, emotionally resonant premise: the orientation of mind shapes the course of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
Interactive installations sit at a fruitful crossroads of art and technology, offering immersive, participatory experiences that reconceptualize authorship, spectatorship, and learning. When treated as a deliberate pedagogical strategy, interactive installations are not merely contemporary artworks; they are classroom laboratories that cultivate creativity, systems thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and digital fluency. This essay defines the form, shows … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
The New Renaissance Mindset 