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Pathways to Poetry

Sundays Mornings at the River

March ’23

It’s not always easy to find that rare combination of time/space/mindset to write. How many times do you seem to be able to manage to achieve only one or possibly even two of these? Some people may need even more than these, especially if you’re caring for young or old, or when your part-time job extends so much further into the working week than you thought it would.

In this blog, I want to encourage and empower part-time poets to find a way to write when they are not doing their ‘normal’ jobs – as it were. I want to show all you part-time poets out there – leading by example of course – that it is possible to be both busy and a budding poet…

The Poetry of Reflection

Sheffield Institute of Education

April ’23

We love poetry and we love teaching. But is it possible to combine the two?

We came across an article in the Times Higher Education (Illingworth, 2022) that did just that, and decided to try it. This post describes our experiences of using poetry to widen the horizons of our trainees, showing them how they might use a combination of a reflective model and poetry to critically analyse their teaching experiences…

It's Who I Am, Not What I Do

Sheffield Institute of Education

December ’22

On the way back from a trip ‘up North’ (further up as it were) to see my eldest son, we stopped in Boroughbridge (https://www.visitharrogate.co.uk/explore/boroughbridge) for lunch. When I say lunch, I mean we picked up some pies from the butchers to eat by the mediaeval market place…