Justin Beaumont

Developed by Jack Mezirow, transformative learning explains how individual adults change their fundamental ideas, beliefs and worldviews through critical reflection on their experiences. A new outlook results in new and often healthier behaviours and a greater capacity for self-directed thinking.

Piaget's theory proposes that children progress through four distinct stages: Sensorimotor (birth–2 years), Preoperational (2–7 years), Concrete Operational (7–11 years), and Formal Operational (12+ years). Each stage involves different ways of thinking and understanding the world.

Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences proposes that intelligence is not a single ability but a collection of distinct types. He identified 8 intelligences, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.

YouTube video by Justin Sung Why 99% of People Never Get Better at Learning

Justin Sung explains there are three reasons why people learn too late: (1) Readiness trap: needs require longer to realise; (2) Learning debt: inefficient work today creates more work tomorrow; and (3) Mount Fuji trap: big changes come from tiny actions done often.

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Cultural differences impact English teaching which can lead to misunderstandings if not suitably addressed. Moving from a prescriptive approach to a descriptive one encourages learner to discuss their own experiences and develop decolonial strategies for navigating these differences.

My overall journey as a TEFL teacher has been shaped by a critical and creative blend of intensive one-to-one tutoring with highly customized academic coaching. This individualized and needs-based approach situates in contemporary deschooling, homeschooling and radical, alternative lifestyles.

An innovative blend of online, customized, one-to-one teaching and learning, with tailored, needs-based academic coaching, powerfully integrates the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Global in outlook, universal in spirit and anti-discriminatory in ethics, the approach concerns the whole learner.

In New York, Zohran Mamdani showed how it’s done: ‘identity politics’ can win elections | Nesrine Malik New York’s newly elected mayor rooted his campaign in the personal while, ironically, exemplifying the tradition of the American ‘melting pot’, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist, famously opined at the UN Youth Assembly that '[o]ne child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world'.

There are several compelling reasons to nurture one-to-one learning experiences, balanced against time and resource availability.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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The Indian philosopher, spiritual speaker and writer, Jiddu Krishnamurti, claimed that ‘[t]he highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole’. Krishnamurti’s ideas inform a holistic teaching and learning approach to ESL.

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky was first published in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession" which rebels against the idea that everything, including the human personality and will, can be reduced to the laws of nature, science and mathematics.

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

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