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The strange world of educational viral marketing
Does anyone else get e-mails like this? I went through your blog while surfing in Google, and was very much impressed with your site’s unique information. So, just thought of dropping you a note of...
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Education, Emotions and the Future Seminar
The study of emotions within the field of education has been a growing area of study, which has highlighted how emotions are central to student’s learning and educational experiences both positive and...
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Popular Education Network Conference 2014 – Malta
The 6th International Conference of the Popular Education Network (PEN) Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 April 2014 University of Malta Valletta Campus This conference seeks to build on the success of...
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CfP: Ethics and Education Research
ETHICS AND EDUCATION RESEARCH Friday, 30th January 2015 Lecture Theatre J, Lecture Theatre Block, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS This seminar, supported by the British Sociological Association’s...
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Heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest
This expression by Will Davies has stuck with me since I read it a few months ago. Teaching is a disturbing example of the process Will is alluding to: ratcheting up demands on staff to the point where...
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Dear academic hive mind, please help me identify radical education projects...
A few years ago I produced a list of all the radical education projects that sprang up in the wake of the government’s agenda for higher education ‘reform’. I didn’t really have a clear definition of...
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Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education
Notes for a panel I’m doing in April with Claire Aitchison, Inger Mewburn & Pat Thomson. The idea for the panel was partly provoked by this Discover Society piece. I’m an enthusiast about social...
View ArticleBefore the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools
Reading Factories for Learning by Christy Kulz, I was fascinated to learn of the new right’s cultural war on the educational establishment in the 1980s which I had only been dimly aware of. I knew the...
View ArticleThe social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy
The network scientist Emmanuel Lazega studies collegiality and bureaucracy as ideal typical forms of social organisation which co-exist in a fluctuating balance within organisations. Collegiality...
View ArticleSocial media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue
In the last public interview with Paulo Freire, he talks about tolerance as the means through which we realise the “the rich possibility of doing things and learning different things with different...
View ArticleDebates about the nature of education
From Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems pg 4: There is nothing more pointless than the debates which have now lasted for centuries about the ideal nature of education. The only...
View ArticleBeyond the myth of the ‘cyberkid’
My notes on Facer, K., & Furlong, R. (2001). Beyond the myth of the’cyberkid’: Young people at the margins of the information revolution. Journal of youth studies, 4(4), 451-469. In this paper from...
View ArticleIs digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?
My notes on Davies, H. C., & Eynon, R. (2018). Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?. New Media & Society, 20(11), 3961-3979. It’s so rare for a paper to have...
View ArticleSocial media and education… now the dust has settled
My notes on Selwyn, N., & Stirling, E. (2016). Social media and education… now the dust has settled. Learning, media and technology, 41(1), 1-5. This special issue of Learning, Media and Technology...
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Why I’m so fascinated by education
This passage from Keri Facer’s superb Learning Futures (pg 21) captures why I’m so interested in education. I wrote a PhD on what I called personal morphogenesis: how we become who we are and how...
View ArticleThe meaning of civics as the new world struggles to be born
I’ve blogged regularly over the last few years about what I’ve termed post-neoliberal civics and post-pandemic civics. These terms are conscious placeholders intended to designate a significant change...
View ArticleWhy do computational methods matter for education?
In an infamous article from 2008 the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine argued that ‘big data’ made the scientific method obsolete. While hype about the data deluge has become more nuanced since then,...
View ArticleThe meaning of civics as the new world struggles to be born
I’ve blogged regularly over the last few years about what I’ve termed post-neoliberal civics and post-pandemic civics. These terms are conscious placeholders intended to designate a significant change...
View ArticleWhy do computational methods matter for education?
In an infamous article from 2008 the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine argued that ‘big data’ made the scientific method obsolete. While hype about the data deluge has become more nuanced since then,...
View Article‘Promises Promises’: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic...
Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 4pm to 5:30pm. Room C5.1 in the Ellen Wilkinson Building. Feel free to get in touch if you need advice about finding the place. Promising lines of scholarship have...
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