December 2014

‘Life After Life’ by Kate Atkinson – Review

  I was really looking forward to reading ‘Life after Life’ by Kate Atkinson. The concept of fate, destiny and dreams is explored through the character of Ursula, and her ‘re-writing’ of history. She repeats the process of certain aspects of her life and makes changes to try and improve the lives of herself and her family. Interestingly, […]

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Let it Flow

If our aim is to close the gap, improve literacy, widen cultural experience and create a more dynamic and well educated population, we need to let it flow! FLOW Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience– Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness

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Gossip can be Golden

  In a recent Radio 4 broadcast called ‘Hot Gossip’ , historian Polly Putnam describes  how much the Georgians loved gossip, and it is almost indisputable that this is still the case today. This led me to think about how we can channel this love. We could re-evaluate approaches to reading, and as a consequence develop the

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