Romance is not Dead: Botheredness Solutions, Making Learning Matter, and Rediscovering Joy — Hywel Roberts
In this session Hywel will:
Share ideas from his best-selling book ‘Botheredness’ around storytelling, inductive pedagogies, oracy, inclusion and hope.
Examine getting the lived curriculum right as a serious human endeavour
Offer ways in which existing learning cultures can be refreshed
Suggest useful research
Accept that, when it comes to education, cynicism can sit alongside romanticism, rather than consume it
Facilitate conversations
About the speaker:
Hywel is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is recognised as an in-demand speaker, writer, humourist, and pedagogy philosopher. Hywel specialises in using Drama approaches and storytelling in classrooms.
His books include ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ (written with Dr Debra Kidd) and ‘Botheredness’
He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.
He also runs a brewery.
Ian McMillan, writer and broadcaster on the book ‘Botheredness’: This book places teaching where it should be: at the centre of a nexus of art and science and thoughtfulness and resourcefulness and practicality and dreaming and love. This is a book for all teachers and, let’s face it, all human beings. Read it and grow.
