Tag: reflexivity

Season 1 Episode 1 – Post Truth and Objectivity

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, …

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Post-truth and the rules of the game

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, …

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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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Why did I write that? – How we relate and what it produces

As someone who journals with the aim of using reflexivity to improve my practice, I often look back at my writing and wonder – Why on earth did I write that? Why did I choose to write that particular something at that particular time and why on earth did I use the language that I …

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