Simon Ellis Poole

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What might a reconceptualization of our understanding of mental health look like given increasing numbers of diagnoses?

I ask this question not because I believe necessarily that there is a need to reconceptualize mental health, but because in a conversation with colleagues over a social prescription project we're...

15 February 2018 423 6 View

Could education ever be divorced from politics? Could this provide a platform for educationalists to tackle educational issues?

What would such a brave new world look like? Would it UK wise be the dissolution of the secretary of state for Education's powers (that have increased over the last several decades)? Would this be...

24 January 2018 1,015 2 View

How much folklore is transmitted through schools? Do you think schools should make a point of transmitting folklore?

I'm currently laying down some groundwork to revisit Opie and Opie's seminal text (1959) with schools in my region as a focus. And this question keeps niggling at me. The line of formal, unformal...

19 January 2018 9,356 6 View

Is maintaining a cultural identity important, or should we all try to become one global culture?

A rather cod question I realise, but I've revisited some texts on postnationalism - for a paper I'm tidying up - and it has got me wondering what people really think about this. Whether I'm...

18 January 2018 5,206 24 View

To what extent can an archive be democratic - can the curatorial process be entirely democratic? And how might such an archive be constructed?

Can a folk-group be curators of their own archive? Could there be a more democratic manner in which materials are collected, recorded, accessed etc. I'm thinking particularly here of Ranciere's...

11 January 2018 3,019 3 View