As a teacher I think it’s easy to lose sight of the effect our feedback can have on our students. I was chatting about this with a colleague this morning. Sometimes, instead of calmly pointing out mistakes and providing careful constructive criticism we just want to tear our hair out, screaming…WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Of course, […]

Rehearsal was interesting this afternoon…most of the time was spent on the “dream sequence”. Interesting because I have been rewatching the documentary on Broadway: The American Musical and they had comments from Agnes B De Mille who choreographed the original Oklahoma Broadway production’s dream sequence. She said originally Laurey’s dream was set to be in […]

Anne and I met for Foucault yesterday afternoon and worked our way through the Panopticism section in Discipline and Punish. Once again, for me Foucault provided an evocative phrase describing panopticism, and in turn, disciplinary operations, as a “cruel, ingenious cage” (p. 205). I can’t believe I didn’t notice these beautiful turns of phrase on […]

Anne and I met for Foucault yesterday afternoon and worked our way through the Panopticism section in Discipline and Punish. Once again, for me Foucault provided an evocative phrase describing panopticism, and in turn, disciplinary operations, as a “cruel, ingenious cage” (p. 205). I can’t believe I didn’t notice these beautiful turns of phrase on […]

Tuesday: Time TeamReasons to watch Time Team on Tuesday evenings 1. Baldrick (oops…I mean Tony Robinson) – who manages to make archaeology (which I think is a distinctly untelevisual topic) even mildly interesting 2. The crazed hair archaeologist Phil – who gets excited at dirt of all consistences and colours 3. The other white haired […]

Tuesday: Time TeamReasons to watch Time Team on Tuesday evenings 1. Baldrick (oops…I mean Tony Robinson) – who manages to make archaeology (which I think is a distinctly untelevisual topic) even mildly interesting 2. The crazed hair archaeologist Phil – who gets excited at dirt of all consistences and colours 3. The other white haired […]

An unexpected meeting of the Bundaberg Chapter of the Foucault Reading Group is happening later today…topic…The Panopticon.Stay tuned for more exciting Foucault-inspired discussion….or simply skip this post if you’re not interested….

An unexpected meeting of the Bundaberg Chapter of the Foucault Reading Group is happening later today…topic…The Panopticon.Stay tuned for more exciting Foucault-inspired discussion….or simply skip this post if you’re not interested….

I know the photo’s a little blurry but I’m very impressed that I actually managed to grow a rose bush that flowered successfully. This one is a little droopy because it bloomed during the heavy rain of this week. What’s my secret I hear you ask…well mostly neglect, some kind of spray I found at […]

I know the photo’s a little blurry but I’m very impressed that I actually managed to grow a rose bush that flowered successfully. This one is a little droopy because it bloomed during the heavy rain of this week. What’s my secret I hear you ask…well mostly neglect, some kind of spray I found at […]