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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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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...
carlgombrich
Jul 4, 20144 min read
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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’....
carlgombrich
May 1, 20143 min read
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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...
carlgombrich
Jan 29, 20145 min read
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The New Amateurism
I blogged recently on dilettantism. This was intended as a piece of provocation. But it was also, in my view, an optimistic take on the...
carlgombrich
Jun 22, 20135 min read
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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Knowledge, Democratisation and Power
My job takes me to meet and speak with people who have radically different ideas about the nature of knowledge: its origins, its history,...
carlgombrich
May 20, 20126 min read
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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
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Failure and Confusion
Encouraged by recent discussions of failure in learning (both here at Wimbledon High School for Girls and at the upcoming PELeCON...
carlgombrich
Apr 14, 20121 min read
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Assessment in universities
The way we assess students at university is currently subject to some interesting challenges. I discuss two of these challenges in the...
carlgombrich
Apr 1, 20121 min read
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Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts
Inspired by Khan, reading more at Steve Wheeler’s blog and many other links, I am thinking more about how we can use technology at...
carlgombrich
Nov 28, 20114 min read
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Future Universities – teaching low-tech
Lots on the future of universities in the air. I’m sorry I missed the series at Cambridge with Martin Rees, Stefan Collini and others...
carlgombrich
Nov 10, 20115 min read
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Interdisciplinarity, future work and the learning of ‘languages’
Currently my work has me thinking about future employment, the world of work and the role of universities in preparing students for this...
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Aug 28, 20116 min read
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