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Leanne Hanson
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Feb 2, 2019

How hospital is like a classroom

On the morning of December 31, 2018, I was hospitalised with complications related to cancer — but that’s not important right now. What is important is that I spent nearly a month in a hospital bed, with a lot of time to think, and a lot of that thought was…

Education

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How hospital is like a classroom
How hospital is like a classroom
Education

8 min read


Dec 18, 2018

The downstairs* maid has definitely been sacked.

What a mess she’s left! There’s a tumour there that’s too big to take out without busting open my bladder, so the whole gear needs to go: bladder, ovaries, uterus, lymph nodes, the works. …

Cancer

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Cancer

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Nov 20, 2018

What’s going on downstairs?

When I was in primary school, I used to wet my pants. That’s shameful, right? …

Health

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Health

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Published in FutureWe

·Aug 30, 2018

Are we over-gendering our educational futures?

It seems that everywhere I look these days there’s a gender inclusion policy, a drive to remove gendered barriers, a focus on girls in STEM… and while most of me is cheering the initiatives, there’s another part of me that wonders if we’re not applying labels that risk excluding those…

Women

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Are we over-gendering our educational futures?
Are we over-gendering our educational futures?
Women

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Published in FutureWe

·Aug 11, 2018

The Doctor Who Effect

How many times do we turn on the computer, open the newspaper, or hear on the radio a story about lazy young people, teenagers without direction, selfish technophiles? Well, here’s your daily antidote to all of that negativity, because teenagers are incredible and this one will definitely inspire you. Ishita…

Space

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The Doctor Who Effect
The Doctor Who Effect
Space

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Published in FutureWe

·Jul 28, 2018

The Job Space Race and the Invisible Mandate

Imagine being at school, spending up to thirteen years preparing for the same future your parents were prepared for, only to emerge into a world in which the job you’ve always (been told you) wanted no longer exists. By popular estimate, around 65% of jobs that exist today will not…

Education

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The Job Space Race and the Invisible Mandate
The Job Space Race and the Invisible Mandate
Education

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Published in FutureWe

·Jul 10, 2018

Community, collaboration and connectivity

Community is a concept that is constantly being redefined. It’s been debated by everyone from Aristotle to Zapffe, and the arguments will no doubt go on for as long as there are two humans left to form some sort of cooperative unit. On 1 July FutureWe, in partnership with online…

Education

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Community, collaboration and connectivity
Community, collaboration and connectivity
Education

4 min read


Jul 4, 2018

Women’s Walls and the Fractured God/dess

When I was at University many years ago, doing my B.A., the Arts Faculty ran a great initiative for a semester in which the women’s toilets on the first floor were open for graffiti. …

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in FutureWe

·Jun 29, 2018

Zak Zielezinksi: in his own words

What do Ancient Egypt, a book exchange and a Palo Alto startup have in common? This guy. Meet Zak Zielezinksi, CEO of Declara, an online space which Zak describes as “a community-based, content-centric knowledge sharing and collaboration platform for professionals — in particular, teachers and educators — to engage in…

Education

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Zak Zielezinksi: in his own words
Zak Zielezinksi: in his own words
Education

11 min read


Published in FutureWe

·Jun 12, 2018

The Value of Why

One of the great challenges facing teachers in today’s classrooms is that of student disengagement. For an increasing number of students, traditional methods of teaching (direct instruction, textbooks/ prepared notes, etc) are simply not enough to keep their attention and provide opportunities for deep learning. Some see this as indication…

Education

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The Value of Why
The Value of Why
Education

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Leanne Hanson

Leanne Hanson

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Poet. Editor. Teacher. Occasional user of swear words. Frequent user of coffee. www.leannehanson.com.au

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