Tag: methodology

Removing the Blindfold -Survivors’ stories from the US troubled teen industry

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 …

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Finding truth in the way things go wrong – A Hegelian motto

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 …

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