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The nurturing intelligence concept

Open the lid and tip it all in. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if it were that easy? Ever had a child, or a colleague for that matter, glaze over with a vacant look of confusion, right as you are...

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Thinking above the status quo in a GFC

I’m not going to pretend that our current times are easy.  Political and economic goal posts seem to be constantly shifting, and many people have become casualties of this unrest. In recent years we...

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Why learning is like climbing a mountain

Starting a new academic year can be daunting to say the least. So many subjects, books, websites, assignments – and all in front of you! Wondering if you’ve got what it takes to plough through the...

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No fixed address

I’m writing this blog on a long haul flight from Abu Dhabi to Brisbane. This trip will take approximately 18 hours, and I’m savouring every minute. I don’t particularly love flying, and usually I’d be...

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We build our own knowledge. How we go about it makes all the difference.

When I was around six years of age, my mother read me the story of Margaret Mead (1901-1978). Entitled The Value of Understanding (Johnson, 1979), the book came from a set of biographies written and...

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