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Monthly Archives: January 2015
A poet who didn’t know it?
I have been introduced to the rather lovely Poetweet which has made this for me and this In principle by Sarah Honeychurch You should meet and When the speaker does not engage. I’m calling on to stop in Scotland Aye, it … Continue reading
Uncomfortable thoughts
A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about”. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 123 Philosophy makes my head hurt. It’s hard, and it makes me think, and it challenges me to justify my inchoate beliefs when I just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged discomfort, learning, Wittgenstein
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Posh white boys
There’s a common assumption that there is a gender bias in STEM subjects in HE, but a recent study released in Science has discovered that this is not actually the real story, and that actually philosophy is among the five subjects with the … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Philosophy, University
Tagged academia, gender bias, Philosophy
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Satisfying students
(I began writing this post before I saw the amended title for this week’s #moocmooc) Here in the UK we care about our HE students – no, we really do – we ask them to respond to surveys and publish … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Academia, Critical pedagogy, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, University
Tagged #moocmooc, generosity
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Along the way, take time to smell the flowers
I love gardening, and I am also fond of gardening metaphors. It’s one of the many things I like about Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor (?) of the rhizome and Dave Cormier’s rhizomatic learning – the botanical themes that run through and … Continue reading
Walk this way
Critical pedagogy, it is suggested, is an approach that shows, rather than tells. In a similar vein, Wittgenstein tells us don’t think, but look!1 So am I walking the way I want to walk? Are students really well advised to … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Learning, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged Monty Python, silly walks, Wittgenstein
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Capitalism and Exclusion
Once we had leper colonies, places to isolate the diseased and hide them from public view. They are closed now, in the Western world, and on the whole I doubt many of us would believe that leprosy was a sign … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Freire, MOOC
Tagged capitalism, Foucault, Freire, Ship of Fools
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Capitalism and Freire
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated. (Simone de Beauvoir, … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Activism, Freire, MOOC
Tagged #moocmooc, austerity, Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Simone de Beauvoir, tories
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