Posts, Happyseaurchin

Nov 27, 2020

I bought some lights in preparation for recordings. I also set up a projector and played around with looping the computer camera to the projector which projected on me. Very hard to get the right effect. Have a look at the experiment below. Very crude. And in this case the projection was recorded: I recorded […]

Nov 27, 2020

Decided to do a search on self-discipline in education, and the results were rather thin. Most were spurious analysis confirming what we know, and then plaintive recommendations. See below for three examples. ‘Results suggest that discipline infractions are associated with more negative perceptions of school climate and provide a rationale for the use of proactive […]

Nov 27, 2020

During my walk to get some bread this morning, I ruminated over the fact that the other participants at this Critical Realism group did not contribute to my observation, and in fact the leading professor argued against it. We read this paper (the Johnson & Duberley one mentioned above), and it seemed clear to me […]

Nov 18, 2020

Dialogical Organisational Development Also got Dialogical Organisational Development from Wendy, which shows attempts at collaborative welfare state development in Denmark. Changes are occuring, but the question is, how deep. And the basis of the multiple-system change we are suggesting, the depth is unquestionably deep. I suspect the DOD will suffer from the same financial restrictions […]

Nov 18, 2020

It’s my birthday, 51, and I woke around 4 and thoughts buzzed around until I reached out to record them. Not the usual mindflow, but agitated. Disrupted. This, it appears, was my birthday gift for my 52nd year on this planet. I’m halfway through transcribing the 1.5 hour yabber, and I remember my original plan […]

Nov 13, 2020

The economic condition has corrupted academia thoroughly. The notion of creating a space within which people are free to pursue exploration of ‘truth’ or ‘knowledge’ for the sake of truth or knowledge, is no longer viable. Perhaps this bubble of freedom remains intact in the arts, but the financial concerns of the university as an […]

Nov 10, 2020

startup Sqale for everything: projects are created on sqale, contact with others are done through sqale, tracking thanks for people who help with projects, remunerate participants; use Sqale with any form of engagement Urb: come up with narrative stories which reflect my experience, challenges; metaphoric, and explorative, so that not just like boring blog […]

Nov 10, 2020

I am compiling a new introduction and structure for Confirmation Report for PhD, and hit upon the brilliant idea of inviting supervisors to help me with the initial ‘translation’ of my concepts, constructs into the linear format of ‘problem’, ‘aims & objectives’, ‘research questions’ of the Confirmation Report. No can do. Back to submitting my […]

Nov 08, 2020

Believe in Love We individually possess the power to grow one or the other: shoots of peace, or weeds of war. And if any one of us feels we do not, then possess the humility to apologise and trust those who hold that power for us that we may one day reclaim it. Get Started […]

Nov 05, 2020

I like approaching a thing for the first time. Fresh, beginner mind, sensitive to novelty. It is a little challenging to return to ABC State, which is embedded in the structure I chose for the Confirmation Report. I think I have got a nice attitude towards a simpler presentation, however as I look into it, […]

Nov 03, 2020

Right, first day back to searching for references. Nightmare. I absolutely detest the level of unnecessary complicatedness. Makes me sick! Why on earth anyone would like to be an academic. If it isn’t the joy of conceptual movement, perhaps operating some complex machinery of research, it can’t be the nightmare of using such ugly tools. […]

Nov 03, 2020

Paths Ahead I can see three paths ahead. I’ve only got 5 months to complete. And because it takes a month to sort things out and give two weeks for people to review, realistically this is 4 months. 01 ABC State Extract material relating to ABC State. Use material for Reflexive Reading which applies to […]