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LCCT Programme

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rob Farrow

The schedule for the London Conference on Critical Thought is now available here.

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Flipping Philosophy

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rob Farrow

Last week I went to the 6th International Conference in Critical Theory, based at The John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago in Rome.  I got some useful stuff out my my presentation, both in terms of some headspace … Continue reading →

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Reading: Open Education

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I’ve been meaning to spend a bit of time trying to better understand the open education movement of the 1970s and how it relates to contemporary developments in academia.  A useful summary of some key texts is over at infed.org … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Critical Theory

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Rob Farrow

The full line-up for the 6th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome has now been announced and I see a few familiar names on there from my time at Essex when critical theory was my full-time gig.  As the main … Continue reading →

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OER13: Report & Slides

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I’ve spent the last couple of days here in Nottingham at OER13, where I presented yesterday on the OERRH project and about some of the issues surrounding research synthesis.  Here are my slides: The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research … Continue reading →

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What is Open Access?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I just had to share this video from PhD Comics.  A really neat introduction to the issues surrounding access to scientific literature…

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Visual Learning 2012

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Rob Farrow

Last month I attended the Visual Learning Conference at the Visual Learning Lab, Budapest.  The slides of my presentation are already up here, but I thought it would be worth sharing some of the notes I took while I was … Continue reading →

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#opened12 Reading Group – sign up here!

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Following on from discussions around #opened12 and David Kernohan’s suggestion of a parrallel between Newman‘s approach to education and theories of Bildung, I’ve a mind to see whether there’s interest in a virtual reading group. We could start with The … Continue reading →

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Hornsey: research & self-consciousness

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Rob Farrow

‎What do you do with a quote when you’re not sure what else to do with it?  Stick it on your blog, of course… there’s an interesting parallel to the Friere/Fromm quote here and also some overlap the forthcoming paper … Continue reading →

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Freire & Fromm on ‘Necrophily’

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Just reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed and had to make a note of this quote.  Freire encourages us to adopt the general thesis that “only through communication can hold meaning” and suggests that in pedagogical situations the teacher may only … Continue reading →

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