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What are some of the keys to educating teenage boys? How do we activate their sense of adventure, risk-taking and questioning in such a way that it leads to wisdom? I use the word wisdom, not learning, for a specific … Read More »
Recently I put my class of 13 and 14 year olds through a growth mindset quiz with interesting results using the research of Carol Dweck. What I found asks hard questions of how we do education, particularly with teenage boys. … Read More »
Is the following story typically male or what? CANBERRA (Reuters) – An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian … Read More »
On Tuesday evening I went to hear Celia Lashlie, author of ‘He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men’ speak. I had read the book and wanted to hear her in person as I wondered how she would speak … Read More »
In the Melbourne age today Dr Jerry Rosenfield, frustrated by the consequences of violence he sees in his patients ‘comments’ on street violence ”Is it a problem with education? A lack of respect … Are they divorced from spiritual connections, … Read More »
Went and saw the movie, ‘Men’s Group’ last night. What a great movie! A confronting, hard hitting realistic view of Aussie Blokes dealing with the stuff of life which bends them out of shape. A confronting movie not for the … Read More »
A study by Killian Mullan, a research associate at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW, shows in two-parent families the boys who read the most have fathers who also like to read a lot. And the girls who read … Read More »