I’ve read quite a lot of papers on professional learning over the years and with the best will in the world I have to say that not many of these have been very funny, or at least not intentionally so. This seems a shame, and not just because a bit of entertainment would brighten up the drudgery of academia (though… Read more →
posting by: TL Thompson & C Adams What does it mean to be human in an increasingly technologized and networked world? Cathy Adams (University of Alberta, Canada) and I have been exploring the digital and how to make its effects and affects visible. And in so doing, make the digital available for critical reflection and ethical consideration. We suggest that… Read more →
posting by: Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren & Nick Hopwood ProPEL finds a new platform for international engagement As the ProPEL network matures, its international nature is to find new expression: the third ProPEL conference will be held in Sweden, with plans for a fourth in Australia. While the network and the conference have their origin and home in the… Read more →
A few years ago I co-designed and -chaired an unConference: a global event with innovative intentions towards knowledge mobilization. The intent was to explore different ways researchers, practitioners, program participants (end users), and policy makers could interact with knowledge and each other. And in so doing, challenge assumptions about the fluidity of expertise and ways of knowing. This unConference has… Read more →
Father: … In the sense, you understand, that the author who created us as living beings, either couldn’t or wouldn’t put us materially into the world of art. And it was truly a crime… because he who has the good fortune to be born a living character may snap his fingers at Death even. He will never die! Man… The… Read more →
Colouring-in books for grown-ups have become extremely popular in bookshops and online stores. They are promoted as agents of ‘mindfulness’ and often contain outlines of flowers, geometric patterns, and intricate lettering which you are invited to colour-in with pencils, felt-tip pens or paint. Not often associated with the study of professions and professional practices, colouring-in might seem a strange topic… Read more →
by: Sarah Galloway and Richard Edwards Adult education is a very diverse arena of practice, including workplace training, community-based activities, and leisure pursuits. It operates across the public, private and non-profit sectors, with educators and learners coming from all walks of life, with a variety of experiences and qualifications. In many countries there is no formal route into becoming… Read more →
I have recently been reading and re-reading the writings on education by the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. It has struck me that his early life as an active member of the communist left in Great Britain in the 1960’s had rarely been explored in connection to his later educational writings. This is in spite of MacIntyre’s insistence that certain Marxist… Read more →
When serving as a teacher I seldom think of my body when acting in a classroom. Of course there are some occasions when it comes to the foreground, such as when I fail to pull down a projector screen because of my short body length. I then need to fetch a chair in order to reach the handle of the… Read more →
We have no way of knowing what doing it right is. (Fraser, a paramedic working interprofessionally in a mental health emergency) We have volumes of information telling professionals in different sectors how to work together, and why they should. We have a flurry of interprofessional education programmes to drive home the message, often embracing collaboration as inherently a good thing… Read more →