August 2016

I think that PhD development courses have to be tricky things to structure for a number of reasons; foremost, perhaps, is the wide-ranging experiences that participants bring: from the novice setting out, for example, to someone well through the research and...

In commenting on my post on Monday, Alan Red reminded me of my pragmatic approach to issues of research, and of something I'd written in 1999 for Educational Studies: Environmental Education: Arguing the case for multiple approaches This paper develops existing arguments...

Wednesday in Cambridge began with a focus on epistemology in the capable hands of Leif Östman.  Most gratifyingly, he began in the 1600s with the scientific revolution when nature as object and humans as subject first emerged and we conceptualised the mind. There...

A good evening in the Fens, I thought, as ECER's first PhD conference began last night in Cambridge with a thoughtful and probing introduction by Marcia McKenzie who was on splendid form despite having to cross both Canada and the Atlantic to get here.  I...

I read an article in last week's Economist with ever-growing gloom.  Titled, Title to come, it concerned the continuing lack of property rights across Africa.  I can hardly bear to re-read it to summarise it here. There's a lack of rights in...

In preparation for a Cambridge PhD seminar later this week, organised by the splendid Elsa Lee, I've been asked to prepare a ... "5 minute introduction that gives a flavour of your worldview (broadly conceived to include your axiological, ontological and...