Sitting in a Tokyo coffee shop, I heard a boy of six or so look up from the phone he was using and tell his parents “Game… Read more ““Game Over” for Katakana Pronunciation”
Category: Japan Britain USA and ME
I have lived most of my life in Britain and Japan, with the USA a distant third. Add to that short bursts of schooling in the Marshall Islands, Spain and Germany and frequent visits to France since the age of 12 — the longest for 9 months. Having been close to different cultures and having attended 11 different schools by the time I was 11, I have an interest in Identity, be it personal or collective. These posts reflect this interest.
Kevin Mark seminar: Zemi 2018
From January 2018 this will be the zemi home page. “Wait! Wait” Listen to me! … We don’t HAVE to be just sheep!
“Intimate” discussions with George
The published and forthcoming posts on George Whitfield in this blog — and many of those on other aspects of life at Hampton Grammar School — document the removal of one of the strands of cloth used in my own educational mummification. It is a narrow band that I am particularly happy to now see waving in the wind, and I’ve attached it as a tail to the high-dancing kite that is my life.
Graduate level laughter
Knowing how to and feeling free to respond to people as individuals first, students of a particular field second, seems to me to be the essence of a holistic approach to education.
“A lump of shit floating down the river”
This blog is gaining momentum, but at a pace that belies the flood of memories and creative ideas that the pleasure of self-expression in this medium has unleashed.… Read more ““A lump of shit floating down the river””
The kind of workplace we want, the kind of world we want…
Choosing to banish the excuses and prejudices that prevent us from achieving the kind of workplace that we want is the most powerful and empowering education that we can provide for students at this most dramatic time in human history.
The good-hearted majority
I stumbled across an email I wrote to a friend in Oxford following the big earthquake of 2011. She, like many other friends overseas, was anxious to know how things were for us in Tokyo.
Children of War and Peace
There are many of us who, with fathers and grandfathers who fought in the war, share a sense of mission to ensure that peace prevails over the anger that leads to war. Many of us also feel that Japan, with its unique history of war, natural disaster and more recently nuclear contamination, has the potential to be a leading voice for peace in the world.