Elephant Times Magazine

The Elephant Times [ET] offered space for new conversations

ET magazine was produced for 4 years from 2020.

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>> ET YEAR FOUR - COP28 Teachers thinking afresh

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>> ET YEAR THREE - Education & Climate Change

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>> ET YEAR TWO - Commonwealth Games

Several articles featured the Global Covid Pandemic in particular ET 2.1.

>> ET YEAR ONE

Year One set the scene. It included articles: 'Making connections'; 'Covid 19 as an amplifier of inequality'; climate change; and responses to Black Lives Matter.

Just over 100 educators contributed articles, some more than one.

>> Index of Authors with links to their articles.

>> Introducing ET magazine key themes


'What is it about Tide~ and elephants' 

This was produced at the end of 2020 - looking to the New Year and 2021.

It was an opportunity to revisit the elephant jigsaw and share ideas that we had about revitalising Tide~.

Why 'Elephant Times'? 

Deep in the archive [from 1984] we find The Elephant Times newsletter. This title was inspired by an article by Robin Richardson that uses an ancient Indian fable to highlight fragmented approaches to curriculum innovation and the need for better communication - the need to make connections.

As a contribution to the setting up this archive Robin wrote a new, updated, fable ...

The Elephant in the Empire. Naming, aiming, framing, proclaiming ...


The original ET jigsaw.

The Elephant Times magazine initiative in 2020 was shaped in the context of concern about an increasingly divided society ... and the way that issues that deserved debate were often closed down and labeled as 'woke' ...

There was a sense that these are elephant times again.

There was a need to make more creative connections, open up dialogue and improve communication - This is also the motivation of the Elephant Times Association .

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