EDITORIAL: August 2024
Writing about education
All of us have done our fair share of writing over the years – it really does come with the territory. And you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief at the end of another school year when the computer keys fell silent, reports had been sent, programmes of study submitted and detailed lesson plans could wait for another few weeks.
School holidays for teachers are about not writing.
Of course, new ways are being found (thank goodness) to relieve the pressure of term-time writing and AI may even present the possibility of not having to write anything at all. Less, as they say, is more, and especially if it gives us more time to do other, more important things with our students and families. One also wonders whether the need to teach writing skills has already already being significantly diminished.
And yet writing about education – writing that is not a chore, but a medium for self-expression, analysis and understanding is a skill that should, perhaps, not go out of fashion just yet. The process has a rhythm of its own. You are forced to slow down, take into account other perspectives, make new connections between ideas and then reassemble them in a new synthesis that other people must be able to understand. That’s the point. In the process you always understand the subject matter better yourself.
ITM is just entering its tenth year of publication, and hundreds of people have written for us about aspects of their work which they wish to share with others. We have learned so much from what people have had to say and this month’s edition is no exception. We are hugely grateful.
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Happy holidays!
