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Author: Kieran

Wonderful stuff relating to a certain kind of Irish father
Labyrinth

Info below taken form the blog of Prof. Kevin Milligan The Iona Building, new home of the Vancouver School of Economics KF: There’s stained glass inside! Check it out. [more to add

“What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give.”

“…a fumble for eternity, a longing for heaven, a thirst for return to the embrace of the Almighty”
Standard #9

[under construction] h/t to Isaiah Hardy for getting me thinking about this
The Greatest Canadian

CBC Premier Broadcast (October 17th, 2004)
PhD as Pilgrimage

Seeking reconciliation with the Other
“My Parting Prescription for America”

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service

The Charter (esp. S.33, NWC) and some cases related to K-12
Dwayne Huebner

The Dwayne Huebner Interviews
SW9 Woodshop 2025

It’s time to make sawdust…
UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

Another “hidden tree” on campus
Singer’s “Drowning Child”

[under construction]
“The Shadow”

“The project raised concerns in 2017 partly due to the price tag (now estimated to cost approximately $400,000)…”
Morse Code. Why knot?

Some notes on my Morse fidgets
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“The Scarfe Sculpture”

Paul Deggan (1965): Sculpture on the wall of the UBC Faculty of Education building
Le Guin: A Rant About “Technology”

Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.
‘Symbols for Education’

A 54-block glass mosaic representing UBC’s faculties and departments
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Corruptio optimi pessima

The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich
More Möbius

Further exploration of the Möbius Strip
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche

Michael Sacasas (2024): The Enclosure of the Human Psyche.
On Discernment

Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education
Complexity Science

Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?
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Rewilding the self

Some thoughts on walking the Main Mall at UBC
Pedagogy of the Heart

Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically
To know as we are known

Parker Palmer (1993): To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education.

David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class
The Shape Of Craft

Ezra Shales (2017): The shape of craft

The catch of the (inter)net

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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within

Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus
Technacy education

Seemann (2009): Technacy education
Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70

(2016) Mother who sued Port Alberni school board over First Nations smudging ceremony
Indigenizing Shop: Jeremy O’Shea

Jeremy O’Shea (2021): MEd on “Indigenizing Shop”
Read (1958): I, Pencil

Leonard Read (1958): I, Pencil – My Family Tree

Text of 1998 “Statement of Reconciliation”
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Sand and Foam

Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam

BCTF resource (2023): “to support teachers in being consciously reflective of their professional autonomy as well as their rights and responsibilities as a teacher”
Manual Training for All

KF: scan images from BC Archive

Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices
Babakiueria (1986)

Babakiueria (Barbeque Area): A 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.
Educated Person Exercise

Coulter & Wiens (2008): Why do we educate? R
Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society (review)

“Our Only Imperative is to Achieve”
Poetter (2024) Curriculum Fragments

Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch
David Whyte

“Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light.”
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