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Interdisciplinarity is in vogue in education. It’s been in vogue in the...
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So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical...
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- General expertise - the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery (9)
- Academic Empathy (5)
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- The New Amateurism (3)
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- Qualification or Formation? (2)
Qualification or Formation...
I tweeted out something about universities as places of formation. Oliver Quinlan said he liked the way it was expressed and asked if I had I done a blog about Qualification vs Formation. I hadn’t, so here it is: a blog on the difference between Qualification and Formation, and the place that universities have in that discussion. I think universities have increasingly become places of qualifications in...
Academic Empathy
An occasional paper given at The Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL November, 2013. Academic Empathy: A concept worth bearing in mind? Abstract Talk of empathy is everywhere: in science, the humanities, business and politics. Yet do we, as academics, think enough about how it applies to us in our academic and intellectual lives? This paper...