This is the fine edit of a learning artifact generated as a part of a project exploring methods by which the production of a work can structure a curriculum for active learners in their own lives. Read more…
Author’s note: What follows is a revised version of a talk given to the Morningside Justice and Peace Group (morningsidejandpgroup.org), Edinburgh, on 14 October 2015. The revised version comments on issues which, for reasons of time, my talk does not address. A further note regarding my “revised version” is in order: evidently, a talk does not have footnotes. But -whilst retaining a “spoken” format – I add (some) footnotes here. Read more…
The parable of the blind people and an elephant is a well known story told of a group of blind people who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it… Read more…
The terrible and inhumane attack initiated by Hamas has triggered a massive and disproportionate response by Israeli armed forces on the peoples of Gaza. As a result what has emerged is a situation where the Palestinian civilian peoples are being collectively punished. This article highlights the memorial to these deaths held at the University of Edinburgh along with some of the geopolitical and international law perspectives on the terrible and inhumane atrocities taking place. Read more…
Full title: Partnerships in Research – Reflections on Unlikely, Unusual and Productive Partnership By Prof Fiona Measham by Prof Fiona Measham, University of Liverpool. This was filmed as part of the Drugs Research Network Scotland Annual Conference. The lighting in the venue had broken and created poor conditions for filming.
George Platen could not conceal the longing in his voice. It was too much to suppress. He said, “Tomorrow’s 1 May. Olympics!”
He rolled over on his stomach and peered over the foot of his bed at his roommate. Didn’t he feel it, too? Didn’t this make some impression on him? Read more…
Annex: verb to; to add to the end: to join or attach: to take permanent possession of: to purloin, appropriate: to affix: append. – noun something added: a supplementary building. Annexe Read more…