I’m interested in the idea of engagement in Higher Education. What does it mean to be engaged in your learning. Do lecturers have to be engaged in their teaching, and is this different from simply being engaging? These ideas came from a presentation about ‘engaged singing’ at the 50th Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Conference at New College, Oxford, last week. How might an opera singer demonstrate to her voice coach that she is engaged with her audience? Can she? Or is all that we can see that she engages her audience?
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Philosophical Jottings: 31 March 2015
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