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Performance, Performative, Performativity and Neoliberalism
Barry McGee installation, 2005/2012, featuring an animatronic figureA version of Act 1 of this text appeared in HEAT.Act 1The particular use that Lyotard makes of the term ‘performativity’ in The...
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"Why Johnny can't read…"
This text is a contribution to the Higher Education and Theory Reading GroupThe CrisisIn "The Crisis in Education", Hannah Arendt identifies a crisis in the US school system. Her argument is not...
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Introduction and Jen Boyle from Center for Transformative Media on Vimeo.
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Academic identity and digital agency
In the context of historical scholarship, James Smithies writes that,“There is simply no way to manage …[the] deluge of electronic information without the kind of skills that digital historians take...
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Social media and the researcher from Allan ParsonsTo some extent, and in some ways, the above slide presentation updates the discussion to be found atGiving out to receive in return: Social media for...
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Arendtian perspectives in the scholarship of (learning and) teaching
In "Empowering the scholarship of teaching”, Carolin Kreber (2013), firstly, challenges narrow interpretations of the scholarship of teaching as an evidence-based practice; and, secondly, offers a...
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Declarative identity and (processes of) identification
1. Declarative identity: "I am... "Adam Mars-Jones writes in a review of Claudia Roth Pierpoint's Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books that,"Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933, and has...
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The scene of teaching. A work in progress
“In 1968 the French took to the streets and the English studied a government report ... on primary education” (Bernstein, 2004: 199)"[William] Cobbett's views on education also influenced his history....
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This text continues the previous blog post: The scene of teaching. A work in progress, a reading of Basil Bernstein’s “Social class and pedagogic practice” Visible pedagogies, sequencing rules22. In a...
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Communication, system; Learning, environments
Still, we cannot shake off the Bernsteinian text.This text continues: Scholarisation, classification and The Scene of teaching. A work in progressVisible pedagogy, spatial assumptions45. Thus, in the...
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Continuing the theme of identity raised in Declarative identity and (processes of) identification, one should consider the stance of Johnny Tragedy/Jonathan Stanish on the matter of identity,...
View ArticleControl (systems and systems of control)
If Basil Bernstein (see earlier posts, 1, 2, 3) struggles to articulate a satisfactory framework in which to discuss the role of education in producing, reproducing and changing social order, Gary...
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Pedagogic suicide. The scene of teaching. A work in progress. Part 4.
This text continues, and completes, The Scene of Teaching. A work in progress. The earlier parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.“My Struggle is the chronicle of Knausgaard turning his back...
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To cite a previous post:To permit the unquestioned ascendancy of ‘performance management’ over language and cybernetic performativity is to inhibit, if not to destroy, the creative and caring...
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The Constitution in Question
Colin Kidd (2014), in reviewing two books on the impeachment and trial of Henry Sacheverell in 1710, traces the emergence of the foundations of the modern British state, in which the Crown in...
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Barad and pedagogy
One of the most problematic passages in Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway begins on page 378, where she states,"Brittlestars know better than to get caught up in a geometrical optics of...
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