The story so far… I have finally reached the finish line. I can now pick up my prize after 5 long years: the Doctorate in Education (EdD). In my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report, I had just submitted my thesis in January 2018. In March 2018, I had a mock viva, which went well and left […]
Oh dear! I do not seem to be doing well with these progress reports. It’s been almost 12 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! Previously on Pilgrim’s Progress… As I had previously noted, 2017 was the year where most of my writing was going to take place. It culminated in a succession of first […]
Oh my, it has been 7 months since my last blog post and 19 months since my last Pilgrim’s Progress Report! The Road to Hell… I had the best of intentions for using this blog to record my progress. Instead, I have kept a private journal (in Microsoft Word) of everything that has been happening […]
All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts… (Shakespeare, 1623, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7) Introduction The above well-known and oft-used quote from Shakepeare’s As You Like It is perhaps a fitting […]
But the good ways of reading today succeed in treating a book as you would treat a record you listen to, a film or TV programme you watch … There is no question of difficulty or understanding: concepts are exactly like sounds, colours or images, they are intensities which suit you or not, which are […]
As mentioned in my previous post, I had arranged a Supervisory Meeting on Friday 19 June 2015 to meet up with my two supervisors, Dr Simon Hayhoe and Dr Darren Ambrose, to discuss moving the project forward in terms of the ethics application and looking at ways of working together. About the research study At […]
But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange (Shakespeare, 1610, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2) I was originally going to call this blog post Xenophobia, as in an irrational fear or dislike of the unknown. Unfortunately, it has since become a highly emotive word to describe certain discriminatory practices and inflammatory language. […]
There are a lot of exciting things happening for me in 2015. January (with fingers, toes and eyes crossed) will see the publication of The Really Useful #EdTechBook, which I posted about earlier, and will feature my book chapter “‘…and what do you do?’: Can we explain the unexplainable?”. I had written another chapter for […]
I have now completed the essay for the second module on the EdD programme. Once again, I needed to write a 4000 word essay and I chose a topic that I knew next to nothing about: critical realism. The essay was in the context on how critical realism could enhance our understanding of educational knowledge […]
On the 13th June 2013, I attended the 12th annual Postgraduate Research Association (PGRA) conference at Canterbury Christ Church University. The theme of the conference was around the notion of “Accessibility of Research“, the conference organisers were keen to: “…delve[s] a little deeper into the world of the academic researcher by seeking out your understandings […]