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Government threats to defund DEI look like defeat. But view them simply as bad pedagogy: top-down, ineffective, impossible to control, and Ijeoma Njaka finds hope in subversion. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
"Open questions can be frustrating." But in disability studies pedagogy, they're invitations for reflection that lead to concrete practice changes. Miro Griffiths on teaching with resistance, interdependence, and persistent questioning. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
Seven years of sparking dialogue 🎂 Lee-Ann Sequeira and Michelle Pauli mark the LSE HE Blog's anniversary by picking 5 posts that made them stop and think: AI ethics, accent discrimination, merger culture, playfulness as radical pedagogy, measuring academic freedom. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
What if you taught ethnography through theatre? Cristiana Giordano & Greg Pierotti developed "affect theatre" - students collaborate to build performances from research, learning to feel the connection between experience & scholarly representation. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
"The real risk is not that students will use AI; but that educators continue to grade outputs AI can generate while pretending they still certify human competence" – Ignacio Aravena Gonzalez on redesigning assessment: grade the audit, not the artefact
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In a post-truth world, how do you teach students to separate fact from belief?
Jake Wright explores naïve scepticism in first-year philosophy: the danger when students think there are no answers because philosophy deals with beliefs. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
"The only way you say goodbye to the old institution is if there's a lived story of the new institution that people buy into."
Elisabeth Hill, Chris Husbands & Huw Morris on university mergers: why strategy must trump short-term panic and culture work takes decades 🎧
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Western European academia operates "behind a facade of openness and diversity while maintaining exclusionary institutional structures" – and it's full of "sludge", say Tamas Ziegler & Anna Unger in an interview with @michellepauli.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
"SoTL is a field still making itself. Editors make curatorial decisions about what counts, who contributes, which questions matter." Alicja Syska, Daniela Gachago, Lee-Ann Sequeira on curation vs gatekeeping, developmental reviewing&cross-fertilisation with teaching🎧 blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
"There's no chance in hell for anyone who actually sounds like Stormzy making it in academia."
Aymen Idris on UK HE's sonic straitjacket: why an RP accent remains the unofficial entry fee & code-switching is exhausting, unacknowledged labour. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
