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  • economics

    Welfare state economy: where the state produces goods and services for all. Free market economy: (a myth) where you can freely buy and sell goods and services. Neo-liberalism: form of neoclassical economics where public goods are privatised and monetized, where public goods and services are minimised. The process we more from a welfare state to…

  • narrative

    2. I have been paying more attention, in listening out for narrative stories and when I hear them in my general life. So far: I have noticied a tendancy to tell such narrative stories when trying to make a connection with a stranger. Or eg, to reconnect with a friend: we went over similar stories…

  • one story

    I love this TeD talk. I first watched after a friend told me her son (15) watched as part of English. I liked it. I was impressed that his teacher was showing them this. I played it to my family, my daughter was 9 (I think) and seriously into Enid Blyton (which when I read…

  • dominant naratives

    There are different kinds of dominant narratives. Some are incidious and motivated. They are promoted to support the system (rather than any individual idea/goal) and many that speak such narratives probably don’t even think that is what they are doing any more than the public at large question them, eg – the virtue of having…

  • Identity notes

    Notes from reading: Identity is used by different fields of study: social psychology, developmental psychology, philosophy of language, but not yet a consensus… Difference between self and identity – self control, self-esteem, less related to identity but evaluation of self. Identity composed of biological, psychological, socio-demographic positions. Are these overlapping or distinct? Self defined “I…

  • thoughts on the interview

    (With Prof D McAdams) Main points I suspect that Kim Hill would have been a better interviewer and asked more stringent questions.

  • Anne

    Anne

    Involment in Education: I have always been interested in education, particularly in the kind of education that makes our lives more fulfilling.