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The mythopoetic classroom

Steve Shann

Reflections and published writings from 50 years as a teacher on the nature of the mythopoetic classroom.

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Rebecca Solnit's desk

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This is Rebecca Solnit’s desk.

There’s a chapter about this desk in her book Recollections of my non-existence, and she begins by describing it as follows:

It’s a dainty Victorian piece of furniture, with four narrow drawers, tw...

3 months ago
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The attempt to escape the room with no light

Painting by Sol Karmel-Shann https://www.solkarmelshann.com/works...

There is, I know in my bones, a non-causal connection between the climate change threat and the way we English teachers think about our work. But I struggle to articulate...

3 months ago
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A very short (and way overdue) update

I haven’t posted for yonks.

But I have been busy.

I’m got over a hundred thousand words done of my novel (tentatively called ‘Sally and the Universarium’, though Jo has pointed out that this sounds too like a children’s book, and it’s def...

4 months ago
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'Something deep stirs in me'

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An excellent Ezra Klein conversation with Rebecca Winthrop was the initial stimulus for our desire to talk about the book Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson have written. You can find our first conversation about the book here.

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a year ago
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Teachers discuss the book 'The Disengaged Teen'

1. The Genesis of our Book Group

Readers of The Mythopoetic Classroom will remember me raving, in the post Looking Back, Looking Forward, about a recent discussion between Ezra Klein and Rebecca Winthrop. They were talking about a new...

a year ago
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    A retired introvert happily pottering in the garden or messing up the kitchen, thinking back to a lifetime as a teacher in various classrooms: primary, secondary and tertiary.

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