Marc | June 5, 2008
I just finished reading two interesting pieces – one by Sam Lisles called Education Paradigm and the other by Matthew Reisz called Hits and Misses. Both deal with crucial questions about what is “scholarship” and “education”, albeit from quite different angles, and what reciprocal effects exist between society and the education system. Reisz’s piece concentrates [...]
Marc | October 25, 2006
An interesting article by Lt. Col. John A. Nagl and Lt. Col. Paul L. Yingling titled “New Rules for new enemies” was posted in the October issue of Armed Forces Journal. Part of their argument centers around a requirement to restructure the organizational culture of the US army. To win the Long War, the Army [...]
Marc | October 24, 2006
Over the past six months or so, I have been doing a lot of thinking about the process of professionalization. In its simplest form, the process involves a set of tasks being “set aside” by a state organization and a monopoly on their practice being granted to a specific group – a “professional organization” – [...]
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