Blogs, 'ba' and care: Coaching for Shalom
So why am I taking the Learning Coach role so seriously?
One reason is that it should give students "peace of mind" (i.e. Shalom). (Perhaps I need to check that out by a short online questionnaire to them.)
A second reason is that talent should be nurtured: we can no longer afford to develop a "sink or swim" attitude. In fact on the Multimedia MPhil it has all been about sinking. Nobody has gained the qualification since it started with Spiros in 2002-03. Students doing this MPhil have not been nurtured, and there have been three a year - and most have had a first! So it is not as if they were incapable...
I am struck by the comment Professor Pat Rice made to me about a research student, who was working brilliantly on a study of working class life. Pat said "People like that need to be protected from interference by government bureaucracies. We will have to fill these forms in for him." (Ealing restaurant, c. 2003)
A third reason is that once a person can become self-organising and have learned how to learn, they no longer need a Learning Coach. They are more independent, and will know where to go to get help. They are no longer dependent and helpless. And they will shorten Howard Gardner's conjecture that original researchers will need TEN Years support before their standing in the field is acclaimed.
One reason is that it should give students "peace of mind" (i.e. Shalom). (Perhaps I need to check that out by a short online questionnaire to them.)
A second reason is that talent should be nurtured: we can no longer afford to develop a "sink or swim" attitude. In fact on the Multimedia MPhil it has all been about sinking. Nobody has gained the qualification since it started with Spiros in 2002-03. Students doing this MPhil have not been nurtured, and there have been three a year - and most have had a first! So it is not as if they were incapable...
I am struck by the comment Professor Pat Rice made to me about a research student, who was working brilliantly on a study of working class life. Pat said "People like that need to be protected from interference by government bureaucracies. We will have to fill these forms in for him." (Ealing restaurant, c. 2003)
A third reason is that once a person can become self-organising and have learned how to learn, they no longer need a Learning Coach. They are more independent, and will know where to go to get help. They are no longer dependent and helpless. And they will shorten Howard Gardner's conjecture that original researchers will need TEN Years support before their standing in the field is acclaimed.
posted by Dr Brian Morris at 11:34 pm
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Oh dear! That should read Professor Patrick Joyce at Manchester University. His website is here and commences with the remarkable line; "Hi: my intellectual development took place at Cardinal Manning Secondary Modern School."
Prof. Joyce's actual website says:
Hello: I received my essential intellectual training at the Cardinal Manning Secondary Modern School for Boys, North Kensington, London. I followed this with several years of fruitless if instructive paid work in the London of the early 1960s before I received my BA at the University of Keele, and my PhD at the University of Oxford, in 1975 (Balliol College).
He left school at sixteen.
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