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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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Two cautionary tales
I’ve been bigging up interdisciplinarity and generalism as something we must look to provide in UK HE alongside more traditional...
carlgombrich
Oct 30, 20122 min read
The Impulse to Generalism
I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...
carlgombrich
Oct 21, 20125 min read
Learning Maths 2.0
This year I am tutoring some maths again. I’ve missed it and it was nice to find my brain in decent shape – after 5 years away from...
carlgombrich
Oct 7, 20126 min read
Cognitive Work
Some of the most sceptical remarks about a liberal/interdisciplinary education come from those who are experts in established academic...
carlgombrich
Sep 30, 20122 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...
carlgombrich
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...
carlgombrich
Jul 17, 20122 min read
‘Difficult Thinking’ and Interdisciplinarity
At the SRHE conference on Structuring Knowledge last week, Gareth Williams said that we need people in our universities to do the...
carlgombrich
Jul 5, 20125 min read
Your education is a work of art
So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical process: you need to ‘tick boxes’, ‘jump through hoops’,...
carlgombrich
Jul 5, 20124 min read
Reclaiming Generalism
Ask yourself this: would you prefer your prime minister to have studied one thing at university or to have had a more rounded higher...
carlgombrich
Jun 30, 20126 min read
T-shaped people, pancake people and Stickle Brick people
A couple of months back, Chris Rapley reminded me of the description ‘T-shaped people‘, started in the 1990s. This phrase is used to...
carlgombrich
May 12, 20124 min read
Visualising education – first thoughts on uses of imagery
In this vlog I float some questions about the way we visualise certain concepts and processes in education. 1. Why do we think of one...
carlgombrich
May 4, 20122 min read
Breadth vs Depth in university education
Health Warning: I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep separate my personal views about education, as expressed on this blog, and...
carlgombrich
May 2, 20125 min read
I Know Nahthing…
I had an excellent day at the PELeCON at Plymouth University, despite a mad dash to get there and a chest infection. I learned a great...
carlgombrich
Apr 21, 20124 min read
Flipping and Polling Questions
Here is the link to my Echo 360 lecturecast on ‘Five Steps to Successful Flipping’, which I gave at the HEA assessment event in UCL on...
carlgombrich
Mar 11, 20123 min read
Humanities – a source of future value?
This is my first vlog. I discuss how recent reports from think-tanks and discussions with major employers point to a re-evaluating of the...
carlgombrich
Mar 5, 20121 min read
Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes
There is a growing interest in what is called Design for Learning. I am reading a nice book on the subject by Julie Dirksen, and Aaron...
carlgombrich
Feb 29, 20125 min read
Drill Classes? Really – in the age of web 2.0?
A few months back now, there was an interesting debate between Steve Wheeler and Larry Sanger about, essentially, the value of learning...
carlgombrich
Feb 20, 20125 min read
International students and UK credentials
Since I blogged on the dangers of UK universities relying on their credentials in the current climate of change in HE, I’ve been thinking...
carlgombrich
Feb 8, 20124 min read
Groucho Marx and interdisciplinary education
‘I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member’, so said Groucho – as Woody Allen tells us in Annie Hall, if you can’t...
carlgombrich
Jan 24, 20122 min read
Interdisciplinarity and individuation
A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...
carlgombrich
Jan 16, 20124 min read
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