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.

Resisting expertise

As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...

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Sep 16, 20114 min read

Enoughness of expertise in higher education in the age of web 2.0

I want to introduce the concept of ‘enough expertise’ into higher education – particularly with respect to teaching undergraduates. The...

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Sep 14, 20114 min read

10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning

The notion that 10,000 hours is what is required to reach expertise in a given area has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared...

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Sep 6, 20115 min read

Contradictions and language

The experience of life is beset with contradiction, even paradoxes. To say this is banal yet it touches the deepest parts of human...

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Sep 4, 20114 min read

Social science and value judgements

I had a nice conversation with one of my favourite philosophers at UCL recently, a man I respect greatly. His main research area has been...

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Sep 3, 20115 min read

Experts, PhDs, research, employment – and musicians

There is anxiety that the UK is not producing enough PhD level researchers, particularly in science and engineering. The view of some...

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Sep 2, 20114 min read

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

A personal heritage…in links

This blog gives my intellectual and academic heritage. Paternal Grandfather: E H Gombrich and also here, at the Gombrich archive....

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Aug 27, 20111 min read

The good ship Society – a metaphor

Our collective social, political and economic stability is like a ship. This ship travels the waves of history, floating on the seas of...

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Aug 26, 20113 min read

Futuristic Money

My friend, the chemist and economist Peter Bowman, reminds me that money is ‘crystallised trust’. Another friend, the Art Historian...

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Aug 24, 20113 min read

Why go to university?

Leaving aside the discussion of value for money from a university education, why, if learning is what you are interested in, should you...

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Aug 23, 20114 min read

What makes money?

Our modern economies revolve around money. The health of the economy, in one way or another, is measured in terms of sums of money. When...

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Aug 23, 20114 min read

The Financial Crisis 2008 and the Miners’ Crisis 1980s

We are told by the media that any regulation of the financial sector will result in that sector ‘going elsewhere’, taking their business...

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Aug 22, 20113 min read

Cross-reference theory of understanding – the Searchlight Metaphor

I hold that you get the best understanding of something by looking at it from many different angles. You can think of this as...

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Aug 22, 20113 min read

Debt

A debt that will not be repaid is a theft. A system based on debt only works if the creditors believe they will get their money back....

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Aug 21, 20113 min read

London Riots 2011 – and Rousseau

I don’t think the London riots of 2011 have one simple explanation. But for one view of why these things happen and the legitimacy of...

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Aug 21, 20111 min read

Economics – where are we?

I write as an amateur in economics. By that I mean that no-one has yet paid me for my views on economics, nor do I have any formal...

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Aug 19, 20114 min read

EH Gombrich and interdisciplinarity

I’ve been thinking about my grandfather EH Gombrich recently, and what he would have made of this talk of interdisciplinarity and what we...

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Aug 18, 20113 min read

‘Value for Money’ in university education

There is concern among students, their parents and guardians, politicians and the media that university students should get ‘value for...

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Aug 18, 20116 min read

Starting a blog – personal style

I guess the big deal about starting a blog is what you put out there first. I feel daunted about what stuff should first be committed for...

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Aug 15, 20112 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Resisting expertise

Enoughness of expertise in higher education in the age of web 2.0

10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning

Contradictions and language

Social science and value judgements

Experts, PhDs, research, employment – and musicians

Interdisciplinarity, future work and the learning of ‘languages’

A personal heritage…in links

The good ship Society – a metaphor

Futuristic Money

Why go to university?

What makes money?

The Financial Crisis 2008 and the Miners’ Crisis 1980s

Cross-reference theory of understanding – the Searchlight Metaphor

Debt

London Riots 2011 – and Rousseau

Economics – where are we?

EH Gombrich and interdisciplinarity

‘Value for Money’ in university education

Starting a blog – personal style

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