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Supervision #1
I had my first formal supervision meeting a couple of weeks ago, and then got sucked into a maelstrom of new students. I just about found the time to print flyers and posters and send some feelers out for participants, … Continue reading
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The myth of the autonomous teenager
White, J. 1997. Philosophy and the aims of higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 22 (1), pp7-17. I got a bit low constructing a response to this paper, because it was published in the same year I went to university … Continue reading
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More on this thing we call Curiosity
On the PyRP unit we have been given various things to study on the subject of Curiosity – the Shulman and Schmitt & Lahroodi articles I wrote about earlier, and the following piece by Donald Schön: Schön, D. A. 1992. The … Continue reading
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Getting better at talking to people
(Notes from qualitative data analysis workshop 12.03.16) In Graham’s session on qualitative data analysis we discussed the value of preliminary or ‘primary’ analysis of the data, beginning early in the process of data gathering (i.e. during/after the first interview), with … Continue reading
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Epistemological assumptions – Usher and Scott
This threatened to be rather dry reading, but I’m getting some good stuff out of it. Maybe I’m growing up. The key point Robin Usher makes in Chapters 1 and 2 is that research is a social practice; there is no … Continue reading
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PyRP – 13 February notes
Some things to consider while I’m reengaging with the research methods literature (aided by matcha green tea and the No55 bus): What is driving me to do the research. What is driving my desire to know? (is it my sense of … Continue reading
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The good life?
I’ve not written much over midwinter, mainly because anything I write at this time of year sounds so morose and apathetic that people start to worry about me. But Spring is coming so here I am. I’ve been reading quite a … Continue reading
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Beyond Good and Evil
Yikes, how I struggled with this. It was mainly the tone that flummoxed me; I could tell there was a good deal of energy in Nietzsche’s words, but what kind of energy I couldn’t tell. It might have been anger, … Continue reading
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What can art and design teachers contribute to an imagination of the university?
I felt like I was starting to lose direction with my thesis plans, so last week I persuaded my academic adviser George to meet up for a pep talk in the Rusty Bicycle. After the novelty had settled on my … Continue reading
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Disciplines of enquiry in education
Shulman, L, S. 1981. Disciplines of Enquiry in Education: An Overview. Educational Researcher, 10 (6), pp5-23 I spent too long mulling over these readings on curiosity, so here’s a more punchy approach to recording my thoughts on this one: The article, … Continue reading
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The value of (intellectual) curiosity
Schmitt, F. & Lahroodi, R. 2008. The epistemic value of curiosity. Educational Theory, 58 (2), pp125-147 This was a funny one. Here Schmitt and Lahroodi present a theorisation of the concept of curiosity from a philosophical perspective. Like the EdD session … Continue reading
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#CPC15: A experiment in conversation
I spent the weekend up in Manchester volunteering with Counterfire and the People’s Assembly at Take Back Manchester; a series of protest events around the Conservative Party Conference. For me this had the potential to be much more than just … Continue reading
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Feminism and stuff
Barrett, P. A. and Taylor, B, J. 2001. Beyond Reflection: Cake and Co-operative Inquiry. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 15 (3) pp237-248 I’ve just read another methodological report on co-operative enquiry from the references on Peter Reason’s website. Like McCardle’s … Continue reading
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Setting up a co-operative enquiry group
McArdle, K. L. 2001. Establishing a Co-operative Inquiry Group: The Perspective of a ‘First-time’ Enquirer. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 15 (3) pp177-189 So, this was a lovely paper, I thought. The author Kate McArdle goes into so much detail … Continue reading
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Some questions and ideas about Ethics
I have some questions about ethics. One is about whether I’ll need to do two rounds of Ethics approval for my thesis project; one prior to recruiting primary participants and the second prior to recruiting secondary participants – given that we … Continue reading
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Possibly coming unstuck at the first hurdle, possibly not.
I started writing this post with less than two weeks to go until the wedding, soon after I’d woken up at 4am covered in hives. They were even on my face. Now, there are millions of people in the world in far … Continue reading
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Talking about conversation
I’m having a funny old summer. It feels like everything is shifting around me. There’s not much more worth saying about that, but it provides a vague picture of the unstable backdrop behind the reading that I’ve been doing to prepare for the … Continue reading
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My EdD thesis plan
It suddenly dawned on me on Monday, during an early morning run in Victoria Park, what I wanted to do for my thesis. The idea had in fact been gestating from the moment the General Election exit poll was broadcast four days earlier, when … Continue reading
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