Announcing a companion site to this one – rgrahamoliver.com – which will be more personal, more congenial and accessible, and contain both a variety of free resources as well as information about my paid services. The site will contain more tips and suggestions, as well as exploring issues of personal development and the mental self-care involved in healing indoctrination that I will not be covering here. It will, of course, be dedicated to the same general purpose; to educational consciousness raising, developing educational understanding and educational awareness. But I hope that it will be more relaxed and encourage a greater personal engagement.

Announcing . . . rgrahamoliver.com

 

This site has a companion site that is still in a preliminary state of development. The site is rgrahamoliver.com and it is a more personal site; less intellectual.

On this present site you are more likely to get extended
text articles designed to push and challenge the reader’s intellectual understanding of education itself. It’s articles are intended to ask and propose answers to the questions of education that are so often begged.

The point here is to challenge that superficiality about education that exists everywhere, that gives it over to conventional schooling, to the state, and to those who have the power to manipulate schools in the service of their own agendas.

Education is everywhere perceived as an intellectually lightweight field – rightly so, in terms of the emptiness and unworthiness of the purposes it conventionally serves. This is ironic, because – even as it is – it is the gateway to the most rigorous and highly disciplined fields that human beings have created. It is the means of getting through these gates that are perceived as being unworthy of any serious or deep examination.

This present site is therefore intended to be the go-to resources for people who are bothered by that, and suspect that profound ethical and deeply human issues lie behind education, and that these may be crucial to who we are and who we might become – as individuals, and as societies.

Here, I hope, you can challenge your thinking, and push your understanding into those questions, discovering not only how primitive we are in conventional educational thought and practice, but also what we might do
about it. This isn’t a site for a disabling, do-nothing cynicism. It is my hope that it will equip people for action. But in order to raise the standard, the material may be a stretch for some – as it sometimes is for me to write.

The companion site that I am announcing here – rgrahamoliver.com – is intended to be more accessible. It is likely that the blog section over there – Thoughts and Things – will be more anecdotal, that it will provide tips and open up suggestions, and that some visitors might find dialogue over there to be more congenial.

The distinction between that blog and this one may get blurry at times when I come to share resources that I find, but my intention on this side is to keep closer to the actual discussions in the book Education – as if our lives depended on it, which is posted on this site, whereas the other site will range more broadly. And it will engage with personal development issues that I am avoiding here

As well as making available all kinds of free resources, rgrahamoliver.com will be the place to go if you want to invest in my services. My availability for speaking engagements, workshops, seminars, advising and collaboration will be set out there.

I hope that it will all prove useful, and that you will get value from both sites!

Make contact. Keep in touch.

Graham

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