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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG
Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity, and some related things like Expertise and Future of Work
Welcome to my new blog. You can read more about me in the About section. I'm looking forward to getting back to 'writing and thinking out loud' about Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity and other things that interest me. You can talk to me either here or on my linked Twitter feed.
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Education FOMO
It's the greatest age ever for learning - provided you have a phone and decent internet connection. It's the overwhelming, over-abundant,...
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Feb 13, 20212 min read
Forms of Creativity – A Perspective from Higher Education
The text below is the public talk (lightly edited) which I gave at the Genoa Festival of Science in 2016. 20 minute read The title I was...
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Nov 12, 201612 min read
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Higher Education
I think that most important decisions, realisations and insights in life are essentially irrational, or a least a-rational, processes. ...
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May 24, 20166 min read
Interdisciplinarity and Intellectual Excitement
I’ve been blogging on the connection between studying at university and work recently. I think this is important because the overwhelming...
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Jun 22, 20153 min read
Expertise
What is expertise? ‘Expert skill and knowledge in a particular field’. What is a field? That is much harder. Is this woman an expert in...
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Jun 16, 20154 min read
Two problems with academic specialisation
One theme of this blog is the relative importance of specialising over staying broader in your education while at university –...
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May 1, 20153 min read
Rigour in interdisciplinary education
What is rigour in education? A rigorous education must be intellectually demanding. It must require students to present work which is...
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May 1, 20152 min read
Education for ‘specialisation’ in the knowledge economy
There are many reasons to believe that a liberal and interdisciplinary education in arts and sciences is the best to prepare you for work...
carlgombrich
Mar 25, 20156 min read
The Knowledge Economy and end of the inherent vs instrumental value conflict in education
‘The Knowledge Economy is the future of the world economy,’ professional services firm Deloitte announced in their report of February...
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Mar 24, 20157 min read
Very short blog about generalists and specialists
Greeks – generalists Romans – specialists (notable exceptions: Varro, Cicero and a few others) Scholastics – specialists Renaissance –...
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Jan 6, 20151 min read
Liberal Education for a Complex World
Here is the talk I gave as one of the keynotes at the ‘Arts and Sciences for Global Leaders’ event at Hitotsubashi University in Japan in...
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Jan 1, 201520 min read
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...
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Jan 29, 20145 min read
Academic Empathy
An occasional paper given at The Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS) within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL November,...
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Dec 8, 201314 min read
Generation Blend
This year on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL, several students studied MOOCs and used online sources alongside their undergraduate modules...
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Jul 2, 20136 min read
Learn, Play, Work, Play
This blog should be read with its companion: Being Serious One of the fun things about being part of the ‘knowledge revolution’ is that...
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Mar 13, 20135 min read
Holistic Hijack
I had in mind to do a proper academic blog on an idea I have that liberal education has generally not flourished in the UK due to a...
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Feb 9, 20132 min read
Flipping lectures – reflections on a term of learning
The Approaches to Knowledge course on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL has now finished. For this module most of the lectures were ‘flipped’...
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Dec 20, 20126 min read
The Impulse to Generalism
I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...
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Oct 21, 20125 min read
Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture
Interdisciplinarity is in vogue in education. It’s been in vogue in the US for a while and throughout most of the last 100 years some...
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Sep 18, 20124 min read
Can we talk about leadership?
Can we talk about leadership? Specifically, can we talk about the relationship between leadership and undergraduate degrees? I have a...
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Jul 17, 20122 min read
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