{"id":3169,"date":"2013-02-04T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2013-02-04T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:58:47","slug":"is-education-unnatural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/02\/04\/is-education-unnatural\/","title":{"rendered":"Is education unnatural?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of Stephen Gough's Inaugural Lecture last Thursday in Bath. \u00a0He concluded, after an erudite <em>tour d'horizon<\/em> that it wasn't. \u00a0There was, of course, much play around nature \/ natural, and I noted, I think for the first time, that whilst we have 'unnatural' in English, which gets used a lot, we don't use 'unnature' at all very much (I don't seem to use it at all), even though it's a real word. \u00a0'Denature' gets used much more, and 'unnature' seems rather close in meaning, especially as a verb.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to Steve: it was a great occasion; lots of people from both town and gown, with various bits of gown represented; including the young and very old (including my first Head of Department, and Steve's original PGCE supervisor). \u00a0The wine was drinkable and the food edible, which were unlooked for bonuses, and the post-lecture conversation flowed.<\/p>\n<p>And there's a new Gough book in the offing. \u00a0Can't wait ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of Stephen Gough's Inaugural Lecture last Thursday in Bath. \u00a0He concluded, after an erudite tour d'horizon that it wasn't. \u00a0There was, of course, much play around nature \/ natural, and I noted, I think for the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}