Current Environment Secretary and prominent Vote Leave campaigner Michael Gove stated during the Brexit referendum, “people have had enough of experts”. This apparent mistrust in the role of expertise has been highlighted in relations to a range of different contexts, with scepticism of climate change – despite the unanimity of research findings on this topic – and debates surrounding the Brexit referendum and 2016 US Presidential election being offered as striking examples. 322 more words
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Classroom Observation & Redesign
Written for an Applied Linguistics Master’s Course: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Part 1: Educational Setting
The classroom observation took place at a primary school located in Nottingham, England. 4,114 more words
Some Troubles with Internet Time
In Spring 2019, I re-booted my course, Feminist Online Spaces. This time I taught it with Masters students in Liberal Studies (MALS) at the CUNY Graduate Center and it was called Contemporary Feminist Theories: The Nowheres & Everywhere of Online Feminism. 152 more words
T Is For Tons
“T” Alphabet art by Neil Bain
“T” is for tons. Triptych, tableau, trompe l’oeil, tempera. Teaching, tutor, tracking, truant, taxonomy, transferable skills. Texture, tone, traditional, tied sheaf, teardrop, trachelium, tulip. 6 more words
LILAC 2019
I attended LILAC in Nottingham this year on the final day of the conference as well as the conference dinner on the night before. In response to calls in incorporate more criticality into library work as well as to highlight many of the ways the libraries and library workers marginalise voices and groups, these themes and ideas were much more to the forefront of the sessions I attended and ideas I exchanged. 993 more words
S Is For So
“S” Alphabet art by Neil Bain
