Yesterday I was awarded the title “excellent teaching practitioner” from my university. Of course, Groucho Marx famously said: I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Given…
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Building and Bildung
I finally got the paper hardback copy of the second book I have contributed to this year – Building Networks for Critical and Altruistic Science Education, edited by John Lawrence Bencze. Seen…
Common sense in translation
This is a parallell post from my Gramsci blog. As a thank you for being the conferancier at the Red party’s electoral wake in Trondheim recently, I got the book “Consequences of…
Working class engineers
The path from vocational education to engineering as a path for recruiting working-class students into higher education Last autumn, I was at a wonderful conference at Chalmers in Gothenburg, organized by the…
Teaching Climate Change to Engineering Students in an Oil-Based Economy
By coincidence, just days after I posted another update on a book I had contributed to, another volume where I have a chapter is out. This volume is edited by Larry Bencze,…
Usefulness and Bildung: Engaging Students in a Bildung-oriented Engineering Education
Togehter with a colleague, I have been lucky to be included with a chapter in this great new anthology on Bildung and engineering education: Our contribution is named Usefulness and Bildung: Engaging…