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Title: The inner game of higher education


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The inner game of higher education
  • Professor Sir David Watson
  • University of Bristol 8 January 2008

Centre for Higher Education Studies
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Outline
  • The student estate
  • Three metaphors
  • Learning and teaching in the modern university

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Teaching, learning and the student estate
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Percentage change in enrolments by subject area,
1996/7 to 2005/06
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UK HE student numbers by mode and level, 1979 -
2005
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Frand, the information age mind-set (2000)
  • Computers arent technology
  • Internet better than TV
  • Reality no longer real
  • Doing rather than knowing
  • Nintendo over Logic
  • Multitasking way of life
  • Typing rather than handwriting
  • Staying connected
  • Zero tolerance for delays
  • Consumer/Creator blurring

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Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
(Simon Schuster 1998).
  • Students these days are, in general, nice. I
    choose the word carefully. They are not
    particularly moral or noble. Such niceness is a
    facet of democratic character when times are
    good. Neither war nor tyranny nor want has
    hardened them or made demands upon them. The
    wounds and rivalries caused by class distinction
    have disappeared along with any strong sense of
    class..Students these days are pleasant,
    friendly and if not great-souled, at least not
    particularly mean-spirited. Their primary
    preoccupation is themselves, understood in the
    narrowest sense (Bloom, 1998 82-83).

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Learning teaching metaphors
  • Games
  • Craft
  • Conversation

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W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis,
(Jonathan Cape, 1975)
  • Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal,
    but the value in winning is only as great as the
    goal itself..So we arrive at the startling
    conclusion that true competition is identical
    with true cooperation.In true competition no
    person is defeated.

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Richard Sennett, Respect the formation of
character in an age of inequality, (Allen Lane,
2003.)
  • Part of what makes both men rare performers is
    that they have achieved mutuality many musicians
    have the cooperative impulse, but few manage to
    translate it into sound. Even more is this true
    of social life an enormous gap exists between
    wanting to act well toward others and doing
    so..I argue that in social life as in art,
    mutuality requires expressive work. It must be
    enacted, performed.

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Richard Sennett, The culture of the new
capitalism, (Yale U. Press, 2006.)
  • A person can use the words correct or right in
    describing how well something is done only if he
    or she believes in an objective standard outside
    his or her own desires, indeed outside the sphere
    of rewards from others. Getting something right,
    even though it may get you nothing, is the spirit
    of true craftsmanship.

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William Miller, Conversation a history of a
declining art, (Yale U Press, 2006).
  • Quotes Michael Oakshott Conversation is an
    unrehearsed intellectual adventure, as with
    gambling, its significance lies neither in
    winning or losing, but in wagering.

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Is this the reinvention of liberal HE?
  • Soft citizenship
  • Values
  • Worked examples
  • Dearing on breadth (recommendation 16)
  • The Harvard core
  • The Melbourne model
  • The Russell Groups balanced meal

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Contexts for learning teaching
  • Research and scholarship
  • Employability and professional formation
  • Instrumental and liberal values
  • Academic careers

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Discussion
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