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Uncomfortable thoughts
A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about”. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 123 Philosophy makes my head hurt. It’s hard, and it makes me think, and it challenges me to justify my inchoate beliefs when I just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged discomfort, learning, Wittgenstein
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Posh white boys
There’s a common assumption that there is a gender bias in STEM subjects in HE, but a recent study released in Science has discovered that this is not actually the real story, and that actually philosophy is among the five subjects with the … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Philosophy, University
Tagged academia, gender bias, Philosophy
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Along the way, take time to smell the flowers
I love gardening, and I am also fond of gardening metaphors. It’s one of the many things I like about Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor (?) of the rhizome and Dave Cormier’s rhizomatic learning – the botanical themes that run through and … Continue reading
Walk this way
Critical pedagogy, it is suggested, is an approach that shows, rather than tells. In a similar vein, Wittgenstein tells us don’t think, but look!1 So am I walking the way I want to walk? Are students really well advised to … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Learning, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged Monty Python, silly walks, Wittgenstein
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Capitalism and Exclusion
Once we had leper colonies, places to isolate the diseased and hide them from public view. They are closed now, in the Western world, and on the whole I doubt many of us would believe that leprosy was a sign … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Freire, MOOC
Tagged capitalism, Foucault, Freire, Ship of Fools
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Capitalism and Freire
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated. (Simone de Beauvoir, … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Activism, Freire, MOOC
Tagged #moocmooc, austerity, Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Simone de Beauvoir, tories
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HEA STEM conference 2014
A couple of weeks ago I attended the HEA STEM conference in Edinburgh. I was a bit out of my comfort zone for a couple of reasons – first because I’m a philosopher, and STEM scares me a bit, and … Continue reading
#ocTEL week 0: Big and Little Questions
Another day, another MOOC, this time ocTEL 2014, the MOOC run by ALT. As ever, I’m just signing up to see what it’s like, and actually wondering whether these low level activities are good for me or whether (probably) I’d … Continue reading
BlendKit2014 week 1
I’ve just realised that I@ve sugned up for another MOOC, this one called: Blendkit2014, becoming a blended designer. I’m not sure how much time I’ll give to this, it’s not gripping me so far, but here goes… For the first … Continue reading
Lecture notes
I gave a workshop today about Flipping Classrooms which I’ll blog about on my other blog. At one point I paraphrased Eric Mazur saying something like this: College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ … Continue reading
