[SSC] List of learning desires?

Thu May 24 20:51:54 UTC 2012

Lovely, Joss, huge thanks. 

Would it help if I tidied up the below list for the blog? Or is that not necessary? I figure at some point we'll have curriculum pages or 
something, so maybe it can wait? Not thinking clearly, have some reading and interview notes I am itching to get back to before all the 
connections between them now circulating in my head evaporate.

Best,
Sarah

On Thu 24/05/12 22:45, "Joss Winn" joss at josswinn.org wrote:
> Hi, Sarah, Jonathan, everyone,
> 
> The form that people used to tell us what they wanted to learn collected
> names and contact information, too, so I don't want to share it online. I
> brought a summary of it to the AGM and will do so for the next meeting in
> June. 
> Below is a copy and paste of what people have written. If you are reading
> this and would like to add to the form, it's here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdlN2U4MH
> V3eHFKWnF1dDUwaDdzOEE6MQ
> Psycology - Human behaviour	Religion and belief systems 			
> Social Justice and International Educational Development; Social Science; 
> 				
"Politics. i don't know what a standard ""politics"" university course
> looks like, or whether it links with the areas that interest me . . .
which are
> a] how our democratic system is supposed to work, [fair distribution of
> power and resources etc]
b] how it actually works, or doesn't  - [abuse of resources and information
> that work against the common good]
c] how is it that with the abundant resources and infrastructure available,
> the distribution of wealth is so lop-sided and so many people suffer and
> are disenfranchised - health, education, employment, housing etc 
d] . . . . and is it possible to devise a self regulating system that
> minimises opportunities for abuse with the least amount of constriction on
> creative energy and flexibility"	"Philosophy. 
again i don't know what a standard ""philosophy"" course would look
> like.
what interests me is how one applies philosophical ideas so that, through
> an improved understanding of ourselves, they improve the quality of our
> lives.
I'm also quite interested in how we come to be religious and how it has
> been misused for the purposes of control
"	"Economics
> again i don't know what a standard ""economics"" course looks like, but i
> am interested in looking at basic economic processes as well as the almost
> religious ""blind faith"" aspects where economists can can profess
> certainties about economics which fly in the face of experience and prove
> disastrous.
"	"Education
> this is my main academic passion and area of expertise, and i think i may
> have something to offer in a teaching capacity, but i'd rather hope that i
> would learn something new along the way. I'll be more specific on the other
> form - the teaching scholar form."	
Psychology (esp. social psychology, political psychology, psychology of
> education, psychology of peace & conflict resolution)				
"Journalism
> "	"Psychology
> "	Advertising & Psychology		
> Sociology				
> Law. My proposal relates to the possibility of removing the right of
> parental consent with regards to psychological testing. More specifically
> where a school considers the child's educational welfare to be neglected by
> the refusal to do so. i.e. a school considers a child to have
> autism/ADHD/PDA/Dyslexia/moderate learning difficulties etc and by not
> having a diagnosis it precludes the child from certain provisions which
> would allow them differentiated access to a curriculum and overall causes
> harm to the child's educational rights. 				
Politics and sociology				
> Education and how it is defined in society.				
> 
> On 24 May 2012, at 14:16, <sarah at socialsciencecentre.org.uk> <sarah at socialsciencecentre.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hello Jonathan,
> > 
> > Yes, good question. We do have what I think is a
> pretty extensive one at the moment. I've gone to where I thought it should
> be but can't find it, so am forwarding this to Joss for advice. Joss, can
> you help when convenient? 
> 
> > Best,
> > Sarah
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Thu 24/05/12 12:18 , Jonathan Coope 
> wrote::
> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sarah,
> > 
> >>       Sorry to bother you - A quick question. I
> know there's a spreadsheet with the interests of Teacher-Scholars expressed
> on it, but I thought I remembered seeing a spreadsheet or list of study
> interests as expressed by potential student-scholars themselves. Do we/you
> have such a thing? I'd be really interested to see it if we do.
> 
> >> 
> >> Many thanks.
> > 
> >> Jonathan
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> To: jo
> nathan_coope at hotmail.com
> 
> >>> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:25
> +0200
> 
> >>> Subject: RE: [SSC] SSC - Notes from the May
> 19th meeting
> 
> >>> From: sarah at socialsciencecentre.org.uk
> 
> >>> 
> > 
> >>> Hi Jonathan,
> > 
> >>> 
> > 
> >>> What a nice comment, thanks! I'd like to
> think it's ethnographer's training, but it's probably actually something of
> a flaw (being more in 
> 
> >>> notes than present).
> > 
> >>> 
> > 
> >>> The meeting was very interesting indeed. I
> hope you can make one of the next ones -- let's talk in advance to see if
> we can assure it.
> 
> >>> 
> > 
> >>> All best,
> > 
> >>> Sarah
> > 
> >>> 
> > 
> >>> On Sun 20/05/12 20:46, Jonathan Coope jo
> nathan_coope at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> >>>> Thanks for these, Sarah.Really clear and
> detailed, even for
> 
> >>>> someone who wasn't there - you've put a
> lot of work in! Very
> 
> >>>> interesting reading.
> > 
> >>>> 
> > 
> >>>> Thank you again
> > 
> >>>> Jonathan C
> > 
> >> 		 	   		  
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
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