Why crumbling foundation?

I'm not a builder and as far as I'm aware the house is fine, so why crumbling foundations?

Well, too often of late I've found myself mired in the muds of procrastination and have totally failed to achieve a single personal goal in any given week. That's not to say I've achieved nothing, work and family-wise I'm doing okay but personally, not so well.

To this end I'm going to try and post something at least once a week, be it pictures of my latest miniatures project, a short story or even a film/book review. Let's see how long it lasts. ;-)

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Richard Thompson – 160202828 – BA (Hons) Education and Personal Development – EPD52 Exploring unified educational theory and the fallacy of “general pedagogical knowledge”. Personal Journal Entry 20191227 : New words and ideas are fun toys we rush to play with, gifting power to the initiated (Frye, 2012, p. 101) , although this is often nothing more than a conceit. If we consider the possibility that learners initially perceive the world through the lens of their passions, but lack merely the appropriate vocabulary to translate and articulate this to their audience, (Whiskey Vault, 2019) can we honestly say they are any less developed in their understanding of the fundamental concept? By labouring to a proscribed outcome, do we not risk increasing disjuncture (Jarvis, 2010) to the point where it gains the French quality of “ barbarique” which Frye translated as ‘something we can’t be bothered trying to understand.’ (2012, p. 96) . Thro...

Reflective Piece: Shaped by Place, Time — and a Mind That Wouldn’t Sit Still

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