Surprising as it might seem, but the idea arrived after turning the last page of a riveting novel by L. Moriarty Big Little Lies (least to say that the novel was made into a brilliant nomination and award winning HBO series starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Shailene Woodley)…
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” states a famous Party slogan in George Orwell’s 1984. These prophetic words not only encapsulate dictatorial governments but reveal one of the more subtle ways any power structure can redefine how a society thinks and thus functions. There are of course less subtle ways as Orwell’s tragic protagonist Winston discovered. Hopefully you will never be imprisoned in the Ministry of Love or have to encounter the horror of horrors awaiting Winston in room 101. If Orwell was right and truly “Who controls the present controls the past” then it begs the question, who is in control of the present? If we can answer that then we know who controls history.
Growing up in an education system where the tradition was to spoon-feed students, when I became a teacher I knew it was not fair to expect my students to be learners who take charge...
It was near the end of a long school year and the beginning of a stifling tropical summer. The venue was Pingtung University and its beautiful campus which lies near the scenic southern tip...
Introduction More than 30 years ago, the American scholar Richard Wayne Mack tested a theory that despite being familiar with notions of creativity, teacher educators fail to train pre-service teachers how to use methods...
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