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.

5 minutes of thoughts on integrated curricula and liberal arts

Below is the text of a short talk I gave at a conference on Liberal Arts organised by Benedictus on Friday 24 June 2016. * I’m not sure...

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Jul 5, 20163 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...

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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

Explicit vs Implicit in Education

So, I get consulted a lot these days about what we’re doing at UCL, how come our students are able successfully to study such radical...

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Mar 6, 20152 min read

Work, skills, education and 21st century blarney

Had a good ol’ chat with Tom Bennett on Twitter last night. In case you don’t know Tom (and neither do I, really) he’s a superb edu...

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Jul 4, 20144 min read

Interdisciplinarity: easy but hard; hard but easy.

In some ways the concept of interdisciplinarity is easy: when doing research or when learning, follow the problem, not ‘the subject’....

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May 1, 20143 min read

Wading In

I read Toby Young’s piece on ‘The Blob‘ over the weekend. Some of it I agreed with, some of it I didn’t. Here’s a few sections of what...

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Apr 4, 20146 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

Learning, unlearning and relearning

Some people don’t like this phrase. It was first popularised by Alvin Toffler – he of Future Shock. Those who think the ’21st century...

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Jun 20, 20134 min read

Would you do your own degree?

This is a question I am increasingly asked. It’s a well fair question to someone leading a big course which includes a lot of innovation....

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May 18, 20135 min read

General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery

The work of Fernand Gobet and Herbert Simon seems to indicate that expertise is ‘domain specific’. That is, you can only learn to be an...

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May 8, 20134 min read

Being Serious

The last blog was a venture out on a limb to reclaim some of the ground for ‘dilettantism’ in work and in study. The intuition comes from...

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Mar 13, 20133 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

The Most Important Thing in Education

I attended the Future Learning conference at Stephen Perse School on Wednesday. The school is in a tiny street in the centre of Cambridge...

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Mar 1, 20133 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

Two cautionary tales

I’ve been bigging up interdisciplinarity and generalism as something we must look to provide in UK HE alongside more traditional...

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Oct 30, 20122 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

5 minutes of thoughts on integrated curricula and liberal arts

Two problems with academic specialisation

Rigour in interdisciplinary education

Education for ‘specialisation’ in the knowledge economy

The Knowledge Economy and end of the inherent vs instrumental value conflict in education

Explicit vs Implicit in Education

Work, skills, education and 21st century blarney

Interdisciplinarity: easy but hard; hard but easy.

Wading In

Qualification or Formation?

Academic Empathy

Generation Blend

Learning, unlearning and relearning

Would you do your own degree?

General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery

Being Serious

Learn, Play, Work, Play

The Most Important Thing in Education

Holistic Hijack

Two cautionary tales

CONTACT

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