Category: teaching

“Philosophy thus traditionally practices a critique of knowledge which is simultaneously a denegation of knowledge (i.e., of the class struggle). Its position can be described as an irony with regard to knowledge, which it puts into question without ever touching its foundations. The questioning of knowledge in philosophy always ends in its restoration: a movement…

The session has without doubt being the most informative, revealing and helpful of the entire unit. It’s not to say that other classes have not been informative or helpful, only that this particular topic has provided me with some much-needed vocabulary for dealing with some major challenges I face as a teacher almost every day….

Vilhauer, M. 2017. Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other. Plymouth: Lexington. ‘Play… is something fundamentally larger than the individual player or their mental state; it is a pattern of movement that surpasses both the players, and is something to which both players belong.’ (p32) ‘“In order for there to be a game, there…

The initial engagement with the concept of “play” and “event” landed very well with me. My own personal practice, and that of many of my students sustains some form of relationship with music. – this perhaps better framed using the vocabulary of Christopher Small “musicking” a broader, if not broadest, sense of all those social…

To what extent are individuals personally responsible for their success? What is the justification for some people earning more than others? What does ‘social solidarity’ mean to you?  In this post I’ll provide an overview of Holmwood’s discourse, before moving on to answering the above questions Holmwood introduces the article identifying the fact that higher…

The first insight provided by Dall’Alba’s text is in the pedagogical relationship and integration of knowing, acting and being. This has a special relevance to my own practice based as it is upon sound, listening and sonic practices of all kinds, all of which are inherently bodily and behavioural pedagogic (paragogic?) ontologies and epistemologies. “Martin…

This first follow-up post focuses on the presentation given by Professor James Wisdom on the topic of The context of UK Higher Education 2021 as it was, no pun intended, full of the aforementioned “wisdom”. His first insight about visual feedback based on students’ foreheads was amusing and insightful. The second point about the amount…