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Of slumdogs and schoolmasters – new article on Jacques Rancière and Sugata Mitra | Panecastic

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8216;Education is a self-organising system’ (Sugata Mitra). August 16, 2011 · 9:58 pm. Of slumdogs and schoolmasters – new article on Jacques Rancière and Sugata Mitra. This is an article on Jacques Rancière and Sugata Mitra that I’ve just finished for the forthcoming ‘Popular Cultural Pedagogy, in Theory’ issue of. Educational Philosophy and Theory. Edited by Paul Bowman. Alternatively, it’s also available as a PDF on Academia.edu. What the hell can a. Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Mitra and Rana 2001:...

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Being and Capital | Praxis

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November 29, 2008. 8212; duncan @ 7:24 pm. So here’s a fun parlour game. (NP is best at it :-P). Spot the many different ways in which philosophers attribute to Being the properties of capitalism, or of capital. Here’s a good one, from Heidegger’s. A Dialogue on Language. We say ‘correlation’ also when talking about the supply and demand of commodities. If man is in a hermeneutical relation, however, that means that he is precisely. 8220;J: Man stands ‘in relation’ then says the same as: Man. It is only ...

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London riots and consumerism

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Consumed by the 2011 London riots. Thursday 11 August 2011. Well now, I can’t have a blog and not mention the riots and looting that have overtaken parts of London and elsewhere in the past week. It is of course the primary topic of conversation, obsessing our private lives, as Auden would have said. On Monday of this week, there was a definite whiff of Armageddon in the air. I have never felt that (smelt that) before. Here’s one little aspect. This is the must have era. Must-have is the hackneyed ph...

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TS Eliot, Wilfred Owen and the process of editing

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TS Eliot, Wilfred Owen and the journey towards poetry. Sunday 7 August 2011. Everyone needs an editor, commented a friend the other day, having read my first couple of posts to this blog. I am used to candour from this particular individual, but I must admit, his comment took me down a peg or two. And there was I, an experienced sub-editor, thinking I didn’t have much to learn after all those years of structuring and enlivening the woefully turgid efforts of many a hack writer. He was right, annoyingly.

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Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth and poetry of the First World War

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Thoughts of Vera Brittain and Testament of Youth on the South Downs. Monday 25 July 2011. View towards Keymer on the South Downs. One of the more memorable lines from Blackadder Goes Forth. The BBC comedy series set against the backdrop of the Western Front and life in the trenches, was uttered by the inimitable Rik Mayall, playing the arrogant, over-the-top flying-ace Lord Flashheart:. See it on this YouTube clip. The photograph is a view northeast towards the West Sussex village of Keymer. I took t...

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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution — Edjudo

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Supporting Technology in High School. You are here: Home. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! May 19, 2012. Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish. September 7, 2012 at 10:19 pm. Isn’t there something a bit odd in lauching a revolution in the name of talent? We each need to find the McCartney within? The role of ...

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The Ancient Greeks: after the “dark ages”, a new beginning | Sic et Non

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Uncertainty, perplexity, ambivalence. I'm pretty sure this is where it's at. The Ancient Greeks: after the “dark ages”, a new beginning. From “dark ages” to the “Golden Age”. 8220;The European spirit spent its youth in Greece”. Historians try to surmise mainly from circumstantial (e.g. the Homeric epics) and archaeological evidence the developments that took place during the Dark Ages. Unlike most other peoples around them, “dark age” Greeks found themselves living in independent, largely aut...Organizat...

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Sugata Mitra | Life, Meaning, Albert Camus & the Absurd

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Life, Meaning, Albert Camus and the Absurd. A dialogue with Albert Camus about life and the absurd. For a punchy intro to our critique to Sugata’s incredibly unphilosophical philosophy of education see our post elsewhere on Sugata Mitra and the Enemies Within. Sugata Mitra and the hole in the wall project. Teaching as indoctrination; learning online as outdoctination. Prof Sugata Mitra, the anti-teacher teachers and the minimally invasive revolution. Sugata Mitra and the critique of empire. Originally pr...

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Angelopoulos & Camus on the Eloquence of Silence | Life, Meaning, Albert Camus & the Absurd

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Life, Meaning, Albert Camus and the Absurd. A dialogue with Albert Camus about life and the absurd. Angelopoulos and Camus on the Eloquence of Silence. The Greek film director Theodoros Angelopoulos is dead. On the TV the cameras pan across the crowd waiting outside a church in Athens. The presenters, not knowing when exactly the funeral service will begin, need to keep talking. The adverts start. I can’t bear it. I switch the TV off. And the significant things include things that are no more. Furthe...