Profession by Isaac Asimov
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…
Persons and Personhood: Notes and Sketches
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…
Prof Fergus McNeill: Annotated Study of Crime and Punishment
This was developed as a ‘learning artifact’ as a part of a documentary method of using multimedia as curriculum. Following the auditor experiment with Drew Whitworth I started to use the audio recording as a tool for capturing a lesson and developing a researched learning resource for the world wide web. This has been made particularly easy by people like Fergus and Drew who are interested in sharing their knowledge.
Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Multiple Disadvantages Support Worker
This is an interview with someone who works as a Multiple Disadvantages Senior Support Worker exploring a series of questions about outcomes and measurements aiming to get nuanced views from people about the bureaucracies they face in their job roles. Read more…
Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Judy Vickers
Black History: Implicit Bias, Dishonest Scholarship and Colonial Propaganda
This article is a result of researching the work Akala presented at the Oxford Student’s Union for Black History month. It is part of a series which comes from the researching of one section at a time using the online video as a knowledge resource to structure a self directed curriculum. This methodology is one which has been developed in order to facilitate independent learning especially in informal contexts of the lives of people like myself.
Widening Participation in the Neoliberal University
This is an extended version of an article I wrote for an assessment in the MSc I am doing at Queen Margaret University. As a part of Public Sociology, I chose to write about the conflicted messaging of the university in terms of administration, bureaucracy and policy. Whilst many people in the educational sector act with values consonant to equating education to human development and as a public good essential for a society to function, the administrative structures seem captured by market driven, profit oriented values delivered increasingly by multinational companies. Read more…
