Work & Ideas
Work & ideas
Long-form writing on participation, human systems and practice. Pieces appear here as they are finished; nothing is back-dated.
Topics
Education & Participation
How young people come to take part — or stop taking part — in the settings built for them.
Human Systems
The conditions, relationships and environments that shape how people behave together.
Green Space / Third Space
An educational idea and body of practice that emerged from working with students.
Reflective Practice
Noticing, recording and revising one's own thinking over long periods.
Technology & Human Authority
Where a tool should stop, and where a person's own judgement should begin.
KaiWay
Notes from the development of an emerging reflective system.
In preparation
Pieces currently being written. Titles are listed so the direction of the work is visible; none of them is published yet.
Green Space / Third Space
The Space Between Participation and Exclusion
Where the Green Space question began.
Education & Participation
Participation Is Not the Same as Compliance
What years in education taught me to ask differently.
Reflective Practice
What I Changed My Mind About
Why revision is part of practice rather than evidence that the practice failed.
Technology & Human Authority
The Mirror Is Not Life
What reflective technology can support — and where it should stop.
Human Systems
Support Without Substitution
Helping without quietly taking over.
KaiWay
Why a Useful Tool Should Sometimes Disappear
Attention, reflective technology and the thinking behind KaiWay.