choice making, the universe and everything(!)

what are we thinking?

Journey Travelled

Reflecting on the experiences and circumstances of my friends and colleagues gives me cause to think deeply-particularly as I see some who have or are retiring, or have taken other life directions. All this as I recently embarked on a new (academic) career, far from my origins (philosophically and physically) and later in life than…

Adult education <> Adult learning

I have just spent some time interrogating ChatGPT about the connections between adult education, teaching and learning. This inquiry builds on earlier work I undertook more than a decade ago by using NGRAM Viewer-where I looked at the changing use of terms like adult learning and adult education. My thought at the time was that…

Podcasts

An excerpt from my thinking midway through my PhD research-signals the birth of my shift to pragmatism and semiotics choicemaking-our muse

An excerpt from my thinking midway from my thesis – the birth of my shift to pragmatism and semiotics Why does ontology matter? Well; what is ontology? And what about epistemology? How did my thinking evolve to taking on a most appropriate philosophocal p[erspective for my research. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://michaelhenderson.co/2016/10/09/why-does-ontology-matter-in-my-research/

Pages (2011-2020)

Lifelong Learning (Research) as a Struggle
Dilemmas of Research
Communication Across Cultures
Twitter and SMS in the 1970s – cross generation communication?
Technology – Slave or Service?
Measures – Why Not and Why?
Zen and the art of… gardening?
Striving… then… gone!
Sustainable and Changeable? Luck
What is Truth?