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June 20, 2019
Immanuel Kant’s conception of perpetual peace took into account the propositions already developed by l’Abbé de Saint-Pierre and Rousseau while exploring new routes leading to the end of all possible conflicts between so-called “civilised nations”.
June 19, 2019
Markus Gabriel is the new rising star of German Philosophy with the success of his book ‘Why the World does not Exist’, first published in 2013, a year after Maurizio Ferraris’s ‘Manifesto for a New...
June 14, 2019
We all love our caffeine hit in the morning, but what is this magic ‘energy’ giving substance and is it actually good for us?
June 14, 2019
Here are some tips in relation to two types of rationales received with IA in the IB Visual Arts Exhibitions that you might want to pass on to your students when they go about writing...
June 13, 2019
The idea of a project of perpetual peace between European nations was anticipated long before the six member states of the original Economic European Union signed the Treaty of Rome in March 1957.
June 12, 2019
If you are looking for work to play with Surrealist ideas, puppets and design then I suggest that you look at Jean Cocteau's 'The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party' and 'The Peach Child' by Anna Furse,...
June 10, 2019
The world of philosophy has lost one of its most popular figures with the death of Michel Serres on June 1st. First attracted to a career in the French Navy, the young officer soon realised...
June 7, 2019
Carrying out a hypothesis test often causes confusion. Here’s how it works. Some hypothesis tests start with a known fact, such as “25% of patients treated for a particular disease will suffer side effects.” A...
June 5, 2019
I love carrying out colorimetry, it is one of my favorite types of labs to carry out and I do believe that as teachers, it is a really underused type of lab and undervalued type...
June 3, 2019
Let’s be clear: unlike the Process Portfolio, there are no requirements that students explore a range of media/processes in the Exhibition. A successful exhibition could consist of, say, ten artworks that all explore the same...
May 31, 2019
This month in the UK there is a focus on wellbeing and mental health, which of course links to mindfulness, which is what many schools are embracing as part of their Advisory programmes. Soon I...
May 29, 2019
How can teachers ensure that they offer revision activities that benefit a variety of skills and learning styles in their classroom? Here are some tried and tested activities that I like to use to prepare...