Christopher R. Matthews
@drcrmatthews.bsky.social
▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
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If you're like me & like reading non-fiction on holiday, I couldn't recommend this more highly. Powerful, cogent, clear. Halpin is well read & his arguments are well reasoned. He writes with care & confidence. Very insightful & quite inspirational at time #education #pedagogy #sociology #theory
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The Problem of Performance Dominating Sport, Education and Society
Calling critical scholars of sport, physical education and health, submit to a special issue challenging 'The Problem of Performance Sport'.
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Do you see the problem of performance sport? @jackhardwicke.bsky.social and i certainly do. So we put this special issue together. Do get in touch if you have an idea. Cheers, CRM think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
This feels like the start of what could be a fun chat, but i hate typing on my phone (and im currently by a pool on holiday). Maybe a conversation some time in the future? If youve writen anything on such topics please do send links
I start from a very different premise. Disciplines are largely nonsense, and finding what unites is not only possible but the foundation for better scholarship. Now, getting published from that sort of approsch is a team effort becuase most people start from disciplinary fetishism. 1/2
Ive thought on this for a while. I think there are two essential starting points - a discussion of the morality and philosophy of research that your work build from. Ironing out the tensions there is important but I dont think many/most scholars can do such things with confidence. What do you think?
There is very little reason for developing scholars to memorise information. If your pedagogy is built around such a thing, and assessing retention, I think its misguided. Helping people think > learning facts.
Editorial doublespeak - when a journal claims to support rigorous methods but inforce restrictive word count limits on methodological discussions.
Formal teaching qualifications should focus on the science of pedagogy. But not to the detriment of the social theory, politics, theology, humanities and art of pedagogy. Accepting these statements requires a radical shift in how PGCHEs & university pedagogy is structured and managed.
This one is for the educators who have realised the world is going to hell in a handbasket... there is still hope. In fact, hope is foundational to all that is good in education, not as some passive psychology state but as an epistemological and sociological nessesity to critical assess and act.
Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...
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'Social science is not as it should be - I think we have lost contact with what matters'
One should have good vocabulary but also swear too much
A very accurate description of a few people I have been unfortunate to have come across at various stages of my career.
Down with Dons - John Carey. Recommended reading for anyone in academia, esp those 'overgrown schoolboy professors' that are so desperate to be respected for their honorifics.
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
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It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
Three interpretations of something that didn't happen, am I right?
Love a good beer fueled creative edit of a paper
Another day, another American war crime.
All scholarship is inherently reductive. I'm beginning to think the majority might be overly so.
I spent a decade as an academic not understanding truth and i didnt even know. Do you think most academics spend much time deeply considering the nature of truth?
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Scholarship is sacred, research is part of that. ✊️