Francis Gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5240688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8975-5391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Mindfulness in an Unmindful System
This article explores a case study of a mindfulness teacher, Beth, and her experiences of teaching mindfulness to 11- to 16-year-olds in several English schools. It shows why Beth was drawn to teaching mindfulness, which was both to alleviate the stress amongst her pupils and improve her own mental health. It illustrates how and why she became a confident, successful mindfulness teacher: she learnt about mindfulness at various classes, retreats a…
The Reciprocal Rebellion
In her ethnographic study, Factories for learning: Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy (2017), Christine Kulz depicts an oppressive system in a United Kingdom secondary school, Dreamfields. Kulz illustrates how many children and teachers are stripped of their autonomy, rights and dignity. In this article, Northfields, a school like Dreamfields, is profiled. Like Dreamfields, Northfields is an authoritarian, heavily surveil…
Why Teach Creative Writing? Examining the Challenges of Its Pedagogies
This article examines the deeper purposes behind the teaching of creative writing. To extend an analogy created by William Blake in his poem ‘The Tyger’, its furnaces are examined and its ‘deadly terrors’ clasped. It re-interprets the different views of teaching English, as drawn up in the United Kingdom’s Cox Report. It argues that these views can be used to help pedagogues consider why they are teaching creative writing, design lessons and refl…
Conservation
Conservation starts off by looking at conservation, ecology, and science and describing how they relate to each other. It then examines populations and how they may change in relationship to movement and the size of suitable habitat available, covering also processes that lead to extinction. Other topics include interactions among different species and the processes through which ecological communities are created. Ecosystems are treated next wit…
Riding the Reciprocal Teaching Bus. A Teacher’s Reflections on Nurturing Collaborative Learning in a School Culture Obsessed by Results
This article examines the author’s interactions with the teaching strategy known as Reciprocal Teaching, sometimes also called Reciprocal Reading, which involves students learning to read collaboratively in small groups. Reciprocal Teaching typically involves students teaching each other by following a rubric of activities that are aimed at primarily improving their comprehension skills. In brief, students read a text in a group and collectively …
Aesthetic Learning, Creative Writing and English Teaching
My article argues that the concept of ‘aesthetic learning’ can be helpful for English teachers on two levels. First, it can be a useful identity for English teachers and students to adopt, based upon my own experiences as a secondary English teacher, creative writer and PhD student. Second, I argue that ‘aesthetic learning’ is an effective and productive way of analysing some of the learning processes that happen in the English teacher’s classroo…
Climate - Vegetation
A walk in Sinai
Article available for download here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/EBBSoc/ejnh.html Egyptian Journal of Natural History Vol.1 1999: 1-66
Teaching Mindfulness in an Unmindful System
This article explores a case study of a mindfulness teacher, Beth, and her experiences of teaching mindfulness to 11- to 16-year-olds in several English schools. It shows why Beth was drawn to teaching mindfulness, which was both to alleviate the stress amongst her pupils and improve her own mental health. It illustrates how and why she became a confident, successful mindfulness teacher: she learnt about mindfulness at various classes, retreats a…
A walk in Sinai
Article available for download here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/EBBSoc/ejnh.html Egyptian Journal of Natural History Vol.1 1999: 1-66
Climate - Vegetation
Aesthetic Learning, Creative Writing and English Teaching
My article argues that the concept of ‘aesthetic learning’ can be helpful for English teachers on two levels. First, it can be a useful identity for English teachers and students to adopt, based upon my own experiences as a secondary English teacher, creative writer and PhD student. Second, I argue that ‘aesthetic learning’ is an effective and productive way of analysing some of the learning processes that happen in the English teacher’s classroo…
Riding the Reciprocal Teaching Bus. A Teacher’s Reflections on Nurturing Collaborative Learning in a School Culture Obsessed by Results
This article examines the author’s interactions with the teaching strategy known as Reciprocal Teaching, sometimes also called Reciprocal Reading, which involves students learning to read collaboratively in small groups. Reciprocal Teaching typically involves students teaching each other by following a rubric of activities that are aimed at primarily improving their comprehension skills. In brief, students read a text in a group and collectively …
Conservation
Conservation starts off by looking at conservation, ecology, and science and describing how they relate to each other. It then examines populations and how they may change in relationship to movement and the size of suitable habitat available, covering also processes that lead to extinction. Other topics include interactions among different species and the processes through which ecological communities are created. Ecosystems are treated next wit…
Why Teach Creative Writing? Examining the Challenges of Its Pedagogies
This article examines the deeper purposes behind the teaching of creative writing. To extend an analogy created by William Blake in his poem ‘The Tyger’, its furnaces are examined and its ‘deadly terrors’ clasped. It re-interprets the different views of teaching English, as drawn up in the United Kingdom’s Cox Report. It argues that these views can be used to help pedagogues consider why they are teaching creative writing, design lessons and refl…
The Reciprocal Rebellion
In her ethnographic study, Factories for learning: Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy (2017), Christine Kulz depicts an oppressive system in a United Kingdom secondary school, Dreamfields. Kulz illustrates how many children and teachers are stripped of their autonomy, rights and dignity. In this article, Northfields, a school like Dreamfields, is profiled. Like Dreamfields, Northfields is an authoritarian, heavily surveil…
Teaching Mindfulness in an Unmindful System
This article explores a case study of a mindfulness teacher, Beth, and her experiences of teaching mindfulness to 11- to 16-year-olds in several English schools. It shows why Beth was drawn to teaching mindfulness, which was both to alleviate the stress amongst her pupils and improve her own mental health. It illustrates how and why she became a confident, successful mindfulness teacher: she learnt about mindfulness at various classes, retreats a…
Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Creative writing (2 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)