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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Research on narcissistic leadership suggests people gravitate to leaders who are confident and who offer clear, simple narratives in contexts of instability BEFORE they get into power. Once there, people tend to then dislike them quite quickly because they are actually v poor at their jobs!!

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It's the natural consequence of having two narcissists both believing them have the ultimate power!!

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Seems quite obvious - if you pursue economic policies which enrich a small group of people at the expense of the majority, then you can't expect that majority to feel secure enough to start families. It's the endgame of free market economics!!

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It's sadly the mainstream now as far as I can see. If you're at all interested my inaugural essentially included elements of this a few weeks ago. ntu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is an amazing use of language. It's basically calling for a serious downgrading of people's pension rights while selling it as positive innovation. No mention of the potential deficit in people's eventual pension levels. Rather than an umbrella, they should have put lipstick on the pig!!

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

(processual) complexity is adopted as the main way of thinking about and encountering tense problems. Otherwise it will be treated as a complicated engineering problem rather than a complex ecosystemic problem

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

@rethinkingjames.bsky.social interesting discussion of polycrisis on your podcast - absolutely spot on. But until folk actually spend time understanding complexity, and preferably processual complexity it will become a fairly unhelpful metaphor. The revolution you discuss can't happen until

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

And with indifference from Labour concerning HE, and the threat of Reform in the wings, the UK is not too far behind. Amazing how countries seem more than willing to throw the advantage to China in the global research stakes.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Perhaps someone could take them to visit an FE college since they apparently don't know they exist. As soon as you read that someone has studied an Oxford degree with politics in the name you know there'll be a fundamental misconception about something quite mundane!

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm finding that the Atlantic is an excellent and sane window on the USA. They have excellent, thoughtful reporting.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I think part of the problem is that Farage is the only one articulating what the future will look like. It's a mean and negative narrative based on conflict and division, but it's a vision. Labour seem to think that being good accountants is enough.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Listening to Farage's speech today - a carbon copy of Trump's approach before the last presidential election. Saddening that so many will be taken in by it. He's even got a version of DOGE going - because it's been so successful in the USA!!

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It'll just speed up a realignment of international trade away from the USA. The uncertainty is damaging and other nations will just lose patience. Great article in the Atlantic about how he's likely to crash the economy. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Although a more developed way to show them is in a framework - simple enough to draw on the back of a napkin and useful as a way of explaining a set of ideas as the start of a dialogue

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Sorry, when I say models, I mean mental models.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

universal solutions to processually complex contexts

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

In terms of ideas being connected, it can mean a number of things, but the heuristic allows for an opening up of this as a dialogue rather than trying to create a complete answer. It's one of the reasons I find the edu cogsci debate a little unhelpful - there are attempts to close down and give

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

idea of models after listening to David Snowden talk about this. Models will always be incomplete and will offer incomplete explanations. Frameworks can act as heuristics and aid dialogue and opening up. It's why he also argued there are no such things as biases only heuristics.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It is useful - as a rule of thumb. It will never be wholly accurate, but from a processually-complex perspective it never can be as anyone explaining this will only ever give a partial explanation. A framework is a simplification to aid dialogue. It can never be more - that's why I've abandoned the

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

thumb from which to expand your own explanation and understanding.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

capturing Hernes' work on meaning structures. It is an abstracted glimpse of a much more complex and continuously flowing emergent complex adaptive system. This then means that the diagram can be understood in a number of different ways dependent on your ontological position, and is just a rule of

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

said, this is seen as a tangle of processes flowing through time. Hence, the notion of nodes and links is a very simplified way of beginning to make sense of learning, but you have to add a great deal of complexity and meaning, as well as temporal aspects to it. Like the diagram I mentioned

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

So, when I think of schema in this way, I see it as a conceptual representation, i.e. that knowledge is made up of parts, but to understand, you need to think about how they fit together, what the emergent complex adaptive system of our learning landscape looks like. It is also important that, as I

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Heuristics are simply a rule of thumb. Hence I see the nodes and connections representation as such a useful rule of thumb - the reality is much more complex but as an aide memoire the representation gives us a handle on the core aspects of that complexity.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I think quite a lot of the education cogsci stuff I see doesn't really take time seriously - I wonder if that's because much of it appears to implicitly see learning as an outcome rather than an ever emerging process. Is learning ever an outcome??

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

idea of meaning structures being the core of organisations, perhaps a useful analogy??

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

From a process philosophical perspective, I'd say they are emerging events - a schema as a nodes and lines image is a useful heuristic, but in reality they are not permanent, constantly being realigned and added to - so any diagram needs a time axis. At a different scale it's a bit like Hernes's

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Another graduate of PPE at Oxford. For the safety of the nation someone really ought to close down that programme. It has done untold damage to the economy.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Read this many years ago. Still holds completely true! The media has been a malignant force in British politics and the severity has only got worse!!

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It's pleasing to see that Durham have followed Lincolnshire and under Reform political leadership have cancelled climate change. If the whole country had the guts to do this, we could burn as much coal as we like and everything would be tickety-boo.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

leaving everyone with no time to properly embed innovations.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

To what extent do you think universities try to change too much at any one time - hyperchange, leaving most with too little time? Do we need less strategic planning focusing on fewer things but giving the time to do them well? Feel as if the system has become unsustainable, chasing too much and

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Another example of woke science. You should move to Lincolnshire, UK where Reform have cancelled climate change. We don't need to worry about it anymore. I'm sure their response to this would be to 'drill baby drill'. It's very liberating when you realise that reality is just what you imagine to be.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

'Yes we have created a completely knackered future for you, and it's not going to improve, so buck up'. It's really GetUsedToIt 2.0. The well-being angle based on hugging puppies didn't work so this is the more direct version!! They just can't accept that the economics are wrong #functionalstupidity

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

But it's no surprise. They can't make the logical jump from the non-death of Neoliberalism and the complete societal bin-fire it's created and the misery, anger and lethargy towards politicians it has created. So rather than changing the system to benefit everyone, it's far easier to say to children

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's yet more cost cutting and standardisation dressed up as child-centred and inclusive. This will just lead to poorer attendance and more trauma - but then again apparently there aren't that many 'genuine' children needing help so that's Ok!!

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

found reading the Experience Machine (Andy Clark) extremely interesting and helpful ties it into the theory of extended mind.

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think this is a natural outcome when the system orientates to reducing knowledge to information, and then on transferring that information into brains (cognition doesn't only occur in the brain) rather than considering human development and wider notions of learning. Tangentially for example have

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

approaches in schools have significantly narrowed their view of learning and what their role in it is.

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

At university level we've seen a significant rise in students who are only interested in what they have to do for an assignment or test - they are less focused on learning the broader sweep. This might in part be due to having to work more now to cover costs of study, but also clear that current

eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It should perhaps focus on the fact that as described employers have created impoverished selection processes which will miss out on creative, original thinkers because AI will always go for the average, mediocre answers. This is about commercial dumbing down!!

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eduwork.bsky.social @eduwork.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thought quite a lot about this over the past couple of days - can't help but think that this is where you get to if your party is technocratic. Nothing driving it but data - and often the wrong data incorrectly analysed and wrongly applied. Thought they'd learned their lesson after Blair.