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Review of: Jason Resnikoff (2021) Labor\u27s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
No full text“Invitation to Learning” Sessions
Get PDFInvitation to Learning by Martin Grams, Jr. (Kearney, NE: OTR / Morris Publishing, 2002) lists a dozen appearances by Bertrand Russell in 1941–51. Of these, the texts of seven have yet to be found. Searches of the archives belonging to the programme’s various hosts and participants have been fruitless, as well as the promising radio collection at the Library of Congress. The show was rebroadcast locally from “transcription discs”, and some may still lie in local radio station archives or await discovery in private collections
“The Fruit of Many Years”: Bertrand Russell and Vera Brittain
Get PDFIn her dedicated promotion of feminism and pacifism, especially during the 1930s, Vera Brittain (1893–1970) was strongly influenced by Bertrand Russell’s writings, especially Marriage and Morals (1929) and Which Way to Peace? (1936). Both were members of the Peace Pledge Union, and she continued as a sponsor after Russell abandoned his pacifism soon after the beginning of the Second World War. She admired his political and social activism in the aftermath of that war, endorsing it as much as her family situation allowed; and, as chairman of the Peace News board, Brittain intervened in Russell’s support when a dispute broke out between him and the editor. Although their relationship was personally limited, Russell’s influence on her opinions and actions was profound
‘Trying to open the doors’: The co-creation of digital resources for disadvantaged primary school pupils
Get PDFThis article explores the use of co-creation as an approach for involving university students in the development of educational initiatives for widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. At present, research and guidance looking at how co-creation practices can enable the production of such initiatives within HE is highly limited, which can deter others from employing this approach. To this end, we provide a case study of a WP project called Topic in a Box that involved staff and students working together to produce digital learning material for primary schools and students over several months. Through the use of semi-structured interviews with nine students, this research provides insight into the steps that were taken to develop the project, capturing the motivations, benefits and challenges of co-creation practice from a student perspective. We argue that this mode of co-creation should be used to a greater extent across the university sector and in recognition that university students have much to offer in terms of widening access to university
Book Review of Building courage, confidence, and capacity in learning and teaching through student-faculty partnership: Stories from across contexts and arenas of practice, edited by Alison Cook-Sather and Chanelle Wilson
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Is Motion “Contradiction’s Immediate Existence”?
Get PDFA driving concern of Russell’s rejection of Idealism was his conviction that reality is free of contradictions. However, echoing the neo-Hegelians that Russell is usually taken successfully to have refuted, Graham Priest has argued that the analysis of motion provides a motivation to adopt dialetheism (the thesis that some contradictions may be true). Furthermore, Priest argues that the Russellian account of motion as given in The Principles of Mathematics fails accurately to capture the phenomenon. In this paper we argue that Priest’s objections to Russell are neither new nor decisive. We show that even if one shares Priest’s concerns about the Russellian model there are alternatives inspired by Russell’s own contemporaries that do not entail dialetheism. We conclude that not only are Priest’s objections to Russell unconvincing, but even one who shares Priest’s intuitions has no reason to resurrect the Hegelian account of motion
A Secondary Bibliography of A History of Western Philosophy, Part I: Extracted Reviews in English. Introduction by John G. Slater
No full textExtracts from the more academic reviews in English follow. They are representative of the totality rather than of individual reviews. Those in the popular press indicate Russell’s high reputation in the mid-1940s but little else. Excluded are blurbs from the Allen & Unwin dustjacket, and there were none on the Simon and Schuster jacket. Copies of all but one of these 132 reviews are in box 1.65 of the Bertrand Russell Archives; they are also preserved in the Russell Archives as PDFs
Co-selecting students for more democratic co-creation: A case study from the Create a Subject Challenge
No full textDemocratic processes are at the foundation of the students-as-partners (SaP) framework. Student selection for SaP projects however, is typically in the hands of staff, which is undemocratic and faculty assumptions and practice exclude particular students from co-creation projects. We describe a case study in which students and staff jointly select students for a co-creation project in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Our reflections suggest that co-selection, compared to selection of students by staff alone, further realizes the democratic ideal of SaP by integrating the student perspective early in the co-creation process. We reflect on the democratic processes in our case study through the lens of deliberative democracy and share prospects and perils of voting and deliberation to embed the student voice in student selection for co-creation