Jun 11
I recently wrote a post looking at Steve Fuller’s ideas on post truth (Post Truth and the name of the game) and this first podcast takes some of ideas and relates them to our work as practitioners. I set a charter for the podcast to keep things on the straight and narrow. We will be keeping things jargon free, …
Dec 18
This time, I am looking at an article by Steve Fuller which is part of an entertaining, ongoing academic argument he is having with Massimo Dell’Utri on post-truth, epistemology and the way we make sense of the world. Fuller has taken exception to Dell’Utri’s suggestion that we have an epistemological compass which provides a universal objectivity, …
Nov 20
This month, I am taking a closer look at Lesley Kopsick’s thesis ‘Removing the Blindfold: Survivors stories of academic and social-emotional learning within the troubled teen industry’ . In the course of her study, she interviews 10 ‘survivors’ about their experiences and her thesis begins with an extract taken from her own experience. I wound …
Jun 02
In the introduction to his book ‘Hegel and the wired brain’ Slavoj Zizek (2020 ) writes that if Georg Hegel had a motto, it would be something like ‘Find truth in the way that things go wrong!’. I find great comfort in that. In my attempt to be an academic practitioner, I aim to help people through …
