lol

Obviously we refused. But it tells you a lot about how they view authors.

Of course not. The editorial outsourcing is a factor here. Once we published a book with them and some bright spark took it upon themselves to change literally every spelling in the book to US spelling, and then they tried to get us, the authors, to go through everything for free and change it back.

SO CROSS
They just lifted my bio from the original proposal and kept ignoring our requests to correct.

It is very much in that vein. Whole careers have been built on invoking ‘inclusion’ and ‘evidence’ at regular intervals, yet the fragmentation of society has never been greater. Maybe, just maybe, there’s been a lot of barking up the wrong tree.

One of the deep rooted historic problems IOE has is reconciling its aggressive turn away from spirituality in teacher training, and exclusively towards nascent psychology, in the early 20th century. We are trying to think through how to remediate that through encouraging 21st century sapience.

Glad to hear that, it was painful writing them given the dark nature of the history.

Well, without giving too much away, as it’s not officially accepted yet, it’s a philosophy one that builds on the book ‘Intelligence, Sapience and Learning’ that we published last year.

Of course my co-author, who is known for his prolific writing, wrote a three page ripost to the handful of extremely minor points raised by the second reviewer. I’ve persuaded him we don’t need to send that in. 😂

The thing I found most insufferable was the exceptions and accommodations made for the children of the already hyperprivileged. For example the independent school that covertly graded pupils bronze-silver-gold depending on the potential for parental endowment and personalised teaching accordingly.

So many proverbial bodies buried!

Relatable. Considering writing my own book about the intensely weird way I spent my 20s observing some of these types up close whilst being apparently invisible to them.

See it as a kind of community of practice (of wealth and power), with him as a kind of hub, and it makes more sense.

I think it’s fair to say he’s taking a rather different approach to custodianship than Jackie Kennedy here.

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