An informal analysis
There are now a dozen blogs that together might be regarded as comprising the CE blogosphere. The criteria for for inclusion here are loose and informal. There may be others. Please let me know.
http://american-conductor.blogspot.com/
http://beckyinbrazil.blogspot.com/
http://ceandme.blogspot.com/
http://educacaocondutiva.blogspot.com/
http://geekconductor.blogspot.com/
http://juditszathmary.blogspot.com/
http://paces.typepad.com/paces/
http://szogeczki.blogspot.com/
http://www.conductiveeducationinformation.org/
http://www.conductive-world.com/
http://www.conductive-world.info/
http://www.susie-mallett.org/
All but one of these are provided through Blogger, using standard templates. Four of these have take the option of an own-domain name, two as org, one as com,, and one as info. The one non-Blogger blog here is provided through Typepad.
Two of the twelve blogs come from the same source, the others being their writers' only blogs. All the blogs but one listed here are in English, the one exception (in Portuguese) having been being the first established CE blog, its author being the doyenne of CE-bloggers. There have been a few others but these have not maintained publication and are not considered further below.
Eleven CE-bloggers in three groups
- parents 2
- conductors 7
- other 2
Two parent-bloggers, active in providing CE for others
- one is Brazilian and runs a CE service in Brazil
- one is British and runs a CE service in England
Nine conductor-bloggers, by nationality, training and present location
- American, trained at Aquinas, working in US
- British, trained at NICE, working in Brazil
- British, trained at NICE, working in England (2)
- Hungarian, trained at the Pető Institute, working in England (2)
- British, trained at the Pető Institute, working in Germany
Two other bloggers
- Both retired, British, living in England.
How representative are the CE-bloggers?
The authors of CE blogs are not representative of Conductive Education in nationality, native tongue, present location and, if conductors, place of initial training.
If one pivots around the age of thirty, then only three of these eleven authors may be regarded as 'young'. These three are all 'young conductors'. There are no 'young parents' represented here.
Another noticeable omission is blogging in languages other than English, except for Portuguese. There is nothing yet in the 'big' CE languages of German and Hungarian.
Any conclusions?
There are no 'conclusions' to be drawn from any of this. Though growth in the CE-blogosphere has been slow, the situation remains dynamic. The Conductive Education blogosphere is still small. It is noticeable that these CE-bloggers draw ideas from each other, both in form and in content, they refer to each others' writings, and they are conspicuous in commenting upon each others' blogs. Together this group publish by far the largest input of written information, news and analysis that Conductive Education has yet seen. Expression is fairly free.
Nothing is known about the readership. There is a handful of non-blogger readers who post frequent and thoughtful comments and, as they are often reminded, would be better of running blogs of then own. Most readers, however, are 'lurkers', or just one-off visitors. It seems unlikely, from examining the record of hits that most blogs publish, that the overwhelming majority of people involves in CE ever see a CE blog, never mind follow one. It is not known how far the CE-blogosphere might serve as a reference for people 'outside' Conductive Education.
NB New CE-blogs are in process of formation.
Conductive Education's most recent blog postings
The most recently published postings in all of the twelve blogs listed above are posted automatically in the left-hand column of Conductive World as soon as they appear (at least, as soon as Google can manage it), under the following heading
CE-BLOGOSPHERE
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