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The Dangerous Rise of Anti-Intellectualism
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hostility towards a certain form of expertise is in favour of someone e.g. denial of climate change is in the interest of energy producers
narrative of not getting higher education appeals to people because learning isn’t comfortable but that’s in favour of the people who want to stop you from questioning certain things (universities popular for standing up against the powers in place)
Are our creative brains eating the equivalent of mental junk food? 😓🧠
I immediately saw this and thought of the conversations we’ve been having around the “thinking class” - and how creativity, depth, critical thinking and even boredom are becoming luxuries.
They shouldn’t be. And... See more
vm.tiktok.comResearch, viewed as an “investment” with no guaranteed return, is treated as a loss — a loss that must be preemptively covered by the thinking tax. Want to think? You have to pay.
Academia needs more freedom. (but not in the sense you are ...
As you can see, I’m over the “whataboutisms” in the comment section of any video that requires you to think critically. I can be as clear and concise as humanistically possible in a video and people will still bring up irrelevant exceptions that have no bearing on the point being made. #whataboutisms #medialiteracy #literacycrisis... See more
tiktok.comreclaiming our academic freedom would mean researchers could once again pursue bold, incredible ideas, as we used to. It would allow academia to break free from the suffocating grip of neoliberalism and make real progress. Perhaps then, we could finally address the mysteries in physics we’ve been stuck on for over 40 years. (And no, it’s not a... See more
Academia needs more freedom. (but not in the sense you are ...
This one is a deep cut #scandal #gossip #academia #research #replicationcrisis #publishing
tiktok.comNo research proposal can pass without agreement on methodology. No thesis can pass without recognisable methodology. There is a mandatory demand: how did you go about getting to know what you have put together as your thesis?
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni • Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
The reference becomes the proof, the comfort blanket, the way to sell in an idea to stakeholders who fear risk . But when the proof is always something already familiar, the outcome can only ever be a variation of what we’ve seen before.