In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Education, training and ethics

| November 18, 2008

For over a month, now I have been wresting with ideas about education, training and ethics.  Last night, I received an email from a student asking me if we could have an extra class added into my course in applied epistemology so that everyone who is presenting could have more time for their presentations.  In [...]

A couple of thoughts on inter-disciplinarity

| November 10, 2008

This past weekend, I was down in Kingston at the biennial IUS Canada conference presenting a paper on the use of ethnographic knowledge in Romano-Byzantine military PME (Professional Military Education) as part of a larger session on “Educating for Cultural Awareness” organized by John Hawkins.  It was an interesting session in a lot of ways, [...]