Nika Maglaperidze 🇵🇸🍉
@musicandteach.bsky.social
Teacher. Socialist . PhD student at Maynooth University, Ireland. CPEP. MA in Education (UCL IOE)
Fascist Street Preachers
September 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Fascist Street Preachers
1/2 Really powerful critique here of the foundational assumptions of pedagogical theory. Pedagogy ultimately collapses under the weight of its ambitions. Subjectivity is demonstrated to be constituted through paradox and discontinuity.
May 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
1/2 Really powerful critique here of the foundational assumptions of pedagogical theory. Pedagogy ultimately collapses under the weight of its ambitions. Subjectivity is demonstrated to be constituted through paradox and discontinuity.
Right on! From van Manen:
March 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Right on! From van Manen:
Maxine Greene from Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
March 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Maxine Greene from Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
The elderly vote as if history ended in 1989; the youth vote as if it's about to begin again.
February 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The elderly vote as if history ended in 1989; the youth vote as if it's about to begin again.
Just read Nagibin's 'The Winter Oak' - a masterful, bewitchingly beautiful tale of how a teacher's professional certainty simply melts away in a forest clearing. I will say no more. It's only a short one and here it is: cathedral.trinitymat.org/wp-content/u...
February 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just read Nagibin's 'The Winter Oak' - a masterful, bewitchingly beautiful tale of how a teacher's professional certainty simply melts away in a forest clearing. I will say no more. It's only a short one and here it is: cathedral.trinitymat.org/wp-content/u...
1/5 Was just reading Aaron Schutz's paper from 2001 on Political Education and this passage stopped in my tracks. Approximately the same thing transpired with a whole slew of reforms in the country of Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
1/5 Was just reading Aaron Schutz's paper from 2001 on Political Education and this passage stopped in my tracks. Approximately the same thing transpired with a whole slew of reforms in the country of Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The true purpose of government, as Augustine observed, is not to perfect humanity but simply to maintain enough order so that good people can live their lives in peace among those who would disrupt it.
January 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The true purpose of government, as Augustine observed, is not to perfect humanity but simply to maintain enough order so that good people can live their lives in peace among those who would disrupt it.
Was browsing through Scott's On Learning Vol. 2 & came across this by Toni Saevi: "The pedagogical relationship is far less a tool than we tend to believe, and far more a sovereign expression of life that opens the possibility of pedagogical moments with significance for those affected." Right on
January 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Was browsing through Scott's On Learning Vol. 2 & came across this by Toni Saevi: "The pedagogical relationship is far less a tool than we tend to believe, and far more a sovereign expression of life that opens the possibility of pedagogical moments with significance for those affected." Right on
"When one studies [Hegel’s] work, it sometimes seems as though the progress that spirit imagines itself to have made, through clear methodology and iron-clad empiricism... is all a regression." – Theodor Adorno
January 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"When one studies [Hegel’s] work, it sometimes seems as though the progress that spirit imagines itself to have made, through clear methodology and iron-clad empiricism... is all a regression." – Theodor Adorno
Also, mind blown to discover Paul Lafargue, whose epicureanism I wrote about in my undergrad essay many moons ago, was actually Marx's son-in-law!
January 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Also, mind blown to discover Paul Lafargue, whose epicureanism I wrote about in my undergrad essay many moons ago, was actually Marx's son-in-law!
Padover's intro to "Marx: The Human Side" reveals the man behind the manifesto - a tender, horseplaying father & witty storyteller. I was surprised to find out that his ferocity also hid quite a bawdy side, quoting Régnier's raunchy verses ("hot piss") as effortlessly as Hegel 😅.
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Padover's intro to "Marx: The Human Side" reveals the man behind the manifesto - a tender, horseplaying father & witty storyteller. I was surprised to find out that his ferocity also hid quite a bawdy side, quoting Régnier's raunchy verses ("hot piss") as effortlessly as Hegel 😅.
Arendt draws a subtle distinction here: cognition seeks definite aims and can be measured/tested, while thought - more similar to philosophical contemplation - resists quantification and has no end outside itself. Something worth considering for #CogSci's community?
January 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Arendt draws a subtle distinction here: cognition seeks definite aims and can be measured/tested, while thought - more similar to philosophical contemplation - resists quantification and has no end outside itself. Something worth considering for #CogSci's community?
Losing the once-firm boundary between the human & the technological, we now evolve apace with the very machines we’ve designed - and in so doing, we risk becoming their docile servants. It's truly terrifying rereading Arendt's chapter on Work in her Human Condition.
January 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Losing the once-firm boundary between the human & the technological, we now evolve apace with the very machines we’ve designed - and in so doing, we risk becoming their docile servants. It's truly terrifying rereading Arendt's chapter on Work in her Human Condition.
Practice precedes theory in education - teaching & learning existed long before any formal theories abt them. Theory's role isn't to dictate practice, but to help teachers become more conscious of what they already do. The dignity of educational practice stands on its own. O F Bollnow
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Practice precedes theory in education - teaching & learning existed long before any formal theories abt them. Theory's role isn't to dictate practice, but to help teachers become more conscious of what they already do. The dignity of educational practice stands on its own. O F Bollnow
Rules first cage us from outside, then colonise our consciousness until we mistake our chains for choices. Pedagogical subjectification emerges through both structural transformation & excavating how institutions have made homes in our minds. Agnes Heller's brimming with insights on all this 👌🏻
December 29, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Rules first cage us from outside, then colonise our consciousness until we mistake our chains for choices. Pedagogical subjectification emerges through both structural transformation & excavating how institutions have made homes in our minds. Agnes Heller's brimming with insights on all this 👌🏻
1/3 Reading Luhmann on how education systems adapt to change offers an interesting angle on the rise AI: education doesn't simply resist or embrace new tech - it metabolises it in ways that often strengthen existing practices. The complexity here is scrumptuously paradoxical iindeed.
December 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
1/3 Reading Luhmann on how education systems adapt to change offers an interesting angle on the rise AI: education doesn't simply resist or embrace new tech - it metabolises it in ways that often strengthen existing practices. The complexity here is scrumptuously paradoxical iindeed.
"Schools and school systems tend to be conservative institutions, preserving what is already central to the thinking of the majority and, therefore, safe. We shouldn't be surprised to learn that schools tend to blunt or flatten out the most controversial and potent thrusts of innovations." Goodlad
December 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM
"Schools and school systems tend to be conservative institutions, preserving what is already central to the thinking of the majority and, therefore, safe. We shouldn't be surprised to learn that schools tend to blunt or flatten out the most controversial and potent thrusts of innovations." Goodlad
Schwab on the necessity for curriculum to focus on the practical and quasi-practical arts, and to avoid its flight into abstract theories far removed from actual classroom realities, educational encounters and pedagogical practices and relations.
December 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Schwab on the necessity for curriculum to focus on the practical and quasi-practical arts, and to avoid its flight into abstract theories far removed from actual classroom realities, educational encounters and pedagogical practices and relations.
Remarkable growth of international schools: In 1964, the Yearbook of Education reported just 50 worldwide. Today, there are 14,010 English-medium international schools (ISC). Given how much these schools have evolved, one wonders if 'international' still captures their essence.
December 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Remarkable growth of international schools: In 1964, the Yearbook of Education reported just 50 worldwide. Today, there are 14,010 English-medium international schools (ISC). Given how much these schools have evolved, one wonders if 'international' still captures their essence.
David Scott on learning
December 13, 2024 at 4:10 PM
David Scott on learning
Students are about to write a test in a remote Georgian village school
December 6, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Students are about to write a test in a remote Georgian village school