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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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 tab, top left. 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 problems with academic specialisation
One theme of this blog is the relative importance of specialising over staying broader in your education while at university –...
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...
Very short blog about generalists and specialists
Greeks – generalists Romans – specialists (notable exceptions: Varro, Cicero and a few others) Scholastics – specialists Renaissance –...
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...
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...
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...
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