Dear all,
[To add to the chorus of white, straight, male, bold, an older writers …]
It is not really a ‘Bologna agreement’. It is a ‘Lasagna agreement’. It is made by a very standardised sequence of layers of standardised ingredients and it does not matter how it’s cut: all portions taste very similar.
Although there are still many cooks that can prepare a fabulous lasagna (in both traditional and nouveau cuisine styles), and there are still many people who love to eat it, lasagna provides only a very limited part of a menu.
What about students who like to eat fish? Or supervisors who have studied exquisite chocolate deserts throughout their lives?
Are we currently accepting fish-lasagna’s with chocolate toppings to fit into the Bologna mould?
Or can we also look at all the other ways in which real people prepare food and enjoy eating (both alone and in groups?).
Kind regards,
Karel.
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> On 9 Jan 2018, at 05:04, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Ken and all,
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> I find myself in complete agreement with your analysis (a rare event). You have done a masterful analysis of government universities policy in our time and its’ consequences for those of us interested in the the types of knowledge that Martin is rightly championing.
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> What, if anything, can we do about this both inside and outside the university sector?
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> I was reminded of the negative consequences of this in a review of some research I read this morning.
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> http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2017/12/31/infographic-vs-text-evidence-throwdown/ <http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2017/12/31/infographic-vs-text-evidence-throwdown/>
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> I was going to check out the original, but I have seen this type of research many times over. I could run half a dozen seminars on why this is the wrong approach to a really important practical issue, but life is short!
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> Unless the universities start valuing and articulating the type of knowledge in this area, they will continue to produce poor research in this area.
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> In frustration and sadness,
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> David
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