Mark Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4521-2720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Introduction to the special issue
Diversity and inclusivity education in an Australian Honours creative practice research program
Diversity and inclusivity remain important issues in the global screen industries, and efforts in Australia to address the lack of representation of gender and marginalised communities in both on-screen roles and creative teams have not yet led to significant improvement. This paper approaches the diversity and inclusivity issues from the perspective of a Higher Education institution, by presenting an Australian educational case study that examin…
Exploring the purposes and uses of generative artificial intelligence tools in academic writing for multicultural students
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues transforming various aspects of university study and work, students increasingly turn to GenAI tools to enhance their writing processes and outputs. This study explores the purposes and ways in which multicultural undergraduate students use GenAI tools, specifically focusing on plagiarism and academic writing perspectives. Through four focus groups with 24 undergraduate students for whom Eng…
On the way to thinking otherwise
Heinz Streib’s article “Wisdom and the Other” marks a significant step in moving toward a more “ex-centric” psychology—that is, one more oriented toward “thinking Otherwise” about the human condition. Streib’s article is also a valiant attempt to marry responsive phenomenology to the psychology of wisdom. Nevertheless, there is reason to question this marriage in terms of both the philosophical fit between the two and the methodological framework…
The Use and Abuse of Stories
This volume argues that "narrative hermeneutics" serves as a vitally important vehicle for addressing and redressing current social and political problems. Hanna Meretoja and Mark Freeman have gathered an interdisciplinary group of esteemed authors to explore how interpretation is relevant to the current discussions in narrative studies and to the broader debate that revolves around issues of truth, facts, and narrative. Addressing topics from th…
Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
Philosophers and economists agree on climate policy paths but for different reasons
Mapping the history of education
Non peer reviewed
The urgency of hope in a time of despair
Given the state of the world, it is perilously easy—for some, including, at times, the author—to fall prey to despair, including the supposition that the world is moving inexorably downward, perhaps even toward some cataclysmic end. Alluring though despair may sometimes be, and impertinent though hope may sometimes seem, it is precisely in a time of despair that hope becomes most urgent. To succumb to despair is not only fatalistic but problemati…
The promises of qualitative research revisited
Exploring the factors that influence the cybersecurity behaviors of young adults
When did we become modern? Commentary on Louis Sass’s (2022) “A flaw in the great diamond of the world”
Negotiating with organized crime groups
Negotiations with organized crime groups occur more often than realized, and raise complex questions of ethics, practice and policy. Currently, law provides few incentives for States to choose the path of negotiation, and thus the political costs and moral hazards remain very high and a mano dura (“firm hand”) approach prevails. This paper examines some of the challenges faced by those who in good faith might initiate or participate in negotiatio…
Narrating the zone of proximal goodness
Negotiating Transitional Justice
The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For decades, the Colombian government fought a bitter insurgency war against FARC guerrilla forces. After protracted negotiations, the two parties reached a peace deal that took account of the rights of victims. As first-hand participants in the talks, and principal advisers to the Colombia government, Mark F…
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets
Under the UN Paris Agreement, countries committed to limiting global warming to well below 2 °C and to actively pursue a 1.5 °C limit. Yet, according to the 2018 Economics Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, these targets are economically suboptimal or unattainable and the world community should aim for 3.5 °C in 2100 instead. Here, we show that the UN climate targets may be optimal even in the Dynamic Integrated Climate–Economy (DICE) integrated as…
Well-Being without a Roof
The morbidity and mortality experiences of people who are unhoused have been well-described, but much less is known about the overall well-being of these individuals. In this mixed methods study, housed and unhoused participants completed a multi-faceted 10 domain measure of well-being (the Stanford WELL Survey), and a subset of unhoused participants shared their experiences during qualitative interviews. Using propensity score matching, unhoused…
Adult education history in Britain
This article – the second part of a two-part contribution – offers a number of suggested directions for the historiography of adult education in Britain. It identifies opportunities to address longstanding areas of neglect that have been overshadowed by a focus on the “Great Tradition” of adult education. Although a key theme of recent research is a shift in focus from educational institutions to the study of learners and learning, the article ar…
Adult education history in Britain
This article – the first part of a two-part contribution – considers the current and past state of research on the history of adult education in Britain. Although there has been a broadening of interest among historians of adult education, the field remains to an extent in the shadow of the “Great Tradition” of liberal education epitomised by university tutorial classes and the Workers’ Educational Association, as well as the contested historiogr…
Adults Reading Aloud
While much is written about reading aloud to children, and as a teaching tool, far less is known about the oral reading that adults do at home, at work or in the community. This article presents the results of a national survey into whether, what, how and why adults across Britain may read aloud rather than in silence. Analysing data from 529 questionnaire responses, the article examines the frequency with which different text types are read alou…
Heeding the Face of the Other
Monikers, mascots, and mayhem
Historical Pageants and the Medieval Past in Twentieth-Century England
This article examines the representation of the medieval past in historical pageants in twentieth-century England. Pageants were an important aspect of popular engagement with the past, and often focused heavily on the medieval period. Different episodes and characters both historical and legendary—Alfred the Great, King John and Robin Hood, for example—featured at different times and in different ways during the twentieth century. Many communiti…
Narrative and Truth
This chapter explores the interrelationship of narrative and truth, focusing on such issues as the differences between non-fictional and fictional narratives, the temporal dimension of narrative, the tension between narrative reconstruction and historical causation, the under-determinacy of the past, and the binding function of narrative. Acknowledging the irrevocably interpretive nature of narrative, it is also suggested herein that the question…
And those who live, how shall I tell their fame?' Historical pageants, collective remembrance and the First World War, 1919-39
Edwardian Britain suffered from a severe bout of what contemporaries referred to as 'pageant fever'. Up and down the country, communities small and large staged theatrical re-presentations of incidents in their and the nation's past. Many historians have commented on this Edwardian enthusiasm, and specifically on the tendency to shy away from depicting more recent events in historical pageants. Fewer, however, have noted the continuing vitality o…
The organisation of denial
Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed ‘sceptics’ claim to be unbiased analysts combating ‘junk science’. This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, most published in the US since 1992, are linked to conservative think tanks (CTTs). Further, we analyse CTTs involved with…
Life “on holiday”
There has been an increasing emphasis in narrative inquiry on “small” stories (i.e., those derived from everyday social exchanges) rather than “big” stories (i.e., those derived from interviews, clinical encounters, autobiographical writing, and other such interrogative venues). The latter, it may be argued, inevitably entail a problematic distance from everyday reality and may thus be said to embody life “on holiday.” On one level, this is surel…
Mythical Time, Historical Time, and The Narrative Fabric of the Self
Despite the belief that narrative may serve as an important vehicle for exploring human experience and selfhood, there frequently exists the paradoxical supposition that narrative accounts cannot help but falsify life itself: Insofar as time is viewed in fundamentally linear terms and experience, in turn, is viewed as that which simply "goes on" in time, narratives may be viewed as entailing an imposition of literary form upon that which is osten…
Demographic Correlates of Individualism and Collectivism
The demographic correlates of idiocentrism and allocentrism (the within-culture measures of individualism and collectivism) were investigated in Sri Lanka. A sample of 438 Sri Lankan respondents, from a wide variety of demographic contexts, provided data for the study. Factor analysis revealed that idiocentrism and allocentrism in Sri Lanka are independent, unipolar factors, rather than opposites on a single, bipolar dimension. Socioeconomic stat…
Experience, Narrative, and the Relationship Between Them
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Toward Poetic Science
Different and Better?' Scottish Joint-Stock Companies and the Law, c. 1720-1845
This paper examines the legal status of joint-stock companies in Scotland in the period between the ‘Bubble Act’ of 1720 and the reforms of company law in Britain in the mid-1840s. Historians have generally contended that Scots company law was ‘different and better’ than English law. In this paper, however, we question the assumption that the legal personality of the unincorporated company in Scotland gave it a significant advantage vis-à-vis its…
Charting the narrative unconscious
This essay explores the cultural dimension of autobiographical narrative, focusing especially on the way in which cultural texts and “textures” become woven into the fabric of memory. This process is one of which people are often unaware, resulting in regions of history that may be all but unknown. The “narrative unconscious,” therefore, refers not so much to that which has been dynamically repressed as to that which has been lived but which rema…
Flight from Blight and Metropolitan Suburbanization Revisited
Patterns of metropolitan suburbanization were analyzed for 51 large metropolitan areas. Migration data indicate that suburban population growth attributed to in-migration from outside the metropolitan area is substantially greater, on average, than that attributed to city-to-suburb migration. Distinguishing between these sources of suburban population growth, significant associations were found between metropolitan suburbanization and central-cit…
Splendid Display; Pompous Spectacle’
This article examines the organisation, nature and content of historical pageants in twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four pageants at St Albans, Hertfordshire – in 1907, 1948, 1953 and 1968 – it considers the selection of historical episodes that were depicted, the role that pageants played in the life of the community, and the ways in which the relationship between past and present was presented. Pageants functioned as both education and …
Identity and difference in narrative inquiry
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Positively Gamma Discounting
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: FREEMAN, M. and GROOM, B., 2014. Positively gamma discounting: combining the opinions of experts on the social discount rate. The Economic Journal 125(585), pp.1015-1024., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12129. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
Research Article
This article compares the different, but related, activities of folklore collection and social investigation in an important period of English rural history. It is argued that the outputs of both activities reflected a complex series of social and cultural interactions in rural theatres of inquiry, and as such that the methods and concepts underpinning them can themselves illustrate important facets of the social history of the period. The articl…
Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600–1850
This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850. Based on a dataset of over 450 company constitutions together with qualitative information on governance practice, it finds little evidence to support the hypothesis that common-law regimes such as England were more supportive of economic growth than civil-law jurisdictions such as Scotland: indee…
Qualitative Inquiry and the Self-Realization of Psychological Science
It is commonly assumed that qualitative inquiry in psychology, whatever its virtues, does not lend itself as readily to the development of (real, true) scientific knowledge as those ostensibly more objective approaches found in quantitative inquiry. At the same time, it is also assumed that qualitative inquiry aspires to be more faithful to "real-life" phenomena in all of their richness. The situation is thus a paradoxical one: Despite the fact t…
Listening to the Claims of Experience
Technological change and the governance of joint-stock enterprise in the early nineteenth century
Recent studies of the innovation process have viewed it as the outcome of organizational dynamics rather than as the product of technological developments exogenous to the governance of firms. We apply this approach to our examination of British coastal shipping companies during the early nineteenth century as they grappled with the problem of making a successful transition from sail to steam technology. Within the industry there were contrasting…
An Outcome Evaluation of the Woodrock Youth Development Project
The Woodrock Youth Development Project (YDP) aims to reduce alcohol tobacco, and drug (ATOD) use among adolescents. The YDP targets riskfactors thatpredispose youth to substance abuse, such as low self-esteem, unhealthy attitudes toward substance abuse, and lack of knowledge about drug effects. The YDP aims to improve problem-solving and coping skills, to raise awareness about the dangers of substance abuse, and to improve self-perception through…
Death, Narrative Integrity, and the Radical Challenge of Self-Understanding
Much contemporary theory suggests that, unlike works of biography or autobiography, human life itself is fundamentally comprised of disconnected moments and is thus devoid of literary form. People may seek to bind these moments together as narratives in the course of their efforts at self-understanding; but these narratives, it is often held, are little more than fictions or myths, impositions of form and order upon the flux of experience. In Tol…
Negotiating with organized crime groups
Negotiations with organized crime groups occur more often than realized, and raise complex questions of ethics, practice and policy. Currently, law provides few incentives for States to choose the path of negotiation, and thus the political costs and moral hazards remain very high and a mano dura (“firm hand”) approach prevails. This paper examines some of the challenges faced by those who in good faith might initiate or participate in negotiatio…
Adult education history in Britain
This article – the second part of a two-part contribution – offers a number of suggested directions for the historiography of adult education in Britain. It identifies opportunities to address longstanding areas of neglect that have been overshadowed by a focus on the “Great Tradition” of adult education. Although a key theme of recent research is a shift in focus from educational institutions to the study of learners and learning, the article ar…
Historical Pageants and the Medieval Past in Twentieth-Century England
This article examines the representation of the medieval past in historical pageants in twentieth-century England. Pageants were an important aspect of popular engagement with the past, and often focused heavily on the medieval period. Different episodes and characters both historical and legendary—Alfred the Great, King John and Robin Hood, for example—featured at different times and in different ways during the twentieth century. Many communiti…
And those who live, how shall I tell their fame?' Historical pageants, collective remembrance and the First World War, 1919-39
Edwardian Britain suffered from a severe bout of what contemporaries referred to as 'pageant fever'. Up and down the country, communities small and large staged theatrical re-presentations of incidents in their and the nation's past. Many historians have commented on this Edwardian enthusiasm, and specifically on the tendency to shy away from depicting more recent events in historical pageants. Fewer, however, have noted the continuing vitality o…
Muscular Quakerism? The Society of Friends and Youth Organisations in Britain, c.1900-1950
This article examines the relationship of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to organised youth movements in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that, despite the Quaker testimony against war and militarism, many members of the Society participated, often enthusiastically, in youth organisations that were considered militaristic by many other Friends. In doing so, they openly acknowledged the ‘military virtues’, a…
Britain's Spiritual Life
This article examines the response of two social investigators in the early post-World War II period to the apparent secularization of British society. It explains how an unpublished survey that the two men carried out, along with the work of other Christian and non-Christian commentators in this period, expressed the hope that religious influences would be strengthened through secular institutions, including communal organizations, workplaces, a…
The Nature of Pores in a Particular Asymmetric Ultrafiltration Membrane as Determined by Measurement of Electrokinetic Phenomena and Electron Microscopy
Knowledge as Desire
Between the "science" and the "art" of interpretation
L'interpretation psychanalytique est examinee ici d'un point de vue scientifique: ainsi, la methode freudienne n'est pas qu'une technique artistique, c'est aussi une methode qui peut etre conceptualisee avec rigueur
Between the "science" and the "art" of interpretation
Between the "science" and the "art" of interpretation
Artistic Creativity and the Meaning of Freedom
Despite the fact that today's art world is thought to be a pluralistic one, ostensibly free of many of the constraints inherent in past eras, many artists feel that they are still unable to create meaningful art. Thus we encounter a paradox. Too much freedom somehow leads to too little. It is argued here, however, that because freedom means significantly more than the mere absence of constraints, there is no paradox at all; the illusion of freedo…
Rewriting the self
The concept of development, whatever the specific domain of interest, is intrinsically bound up with both the idea of narrative and the idea of the moral
Groping in the Light
Even though Fisher's (1995) own `solution' to the alleged problems brought on by social constructionism in regard to the self is questionable in that positing internal causes leads to much the same moral impasse as those more external formulations he seeks to criticize, it is nevertheless of value both to call attention to the limits of the movement and to imagine alternatives that might better allow human agency and moral responsibility into the…
Peer Assessment by Groups of Group Work
Group work can be used to encourage deeper learning, promote student autonomy by transferring some of the responsibility for teaching and learning to students and simultaneously reduce academic time in feedback and marking. While these aims can also be achieved with peer assessment of student output (Williams, 1992; Hughes & Large, 1993; Somervell, 1993), its usage is often limited to assessing the contribution or input of each member to a group …
The (Never-Ending) Battle for Selfhood
Modernity's Madness
Factorial Structure of Individualism-Collectivism in Sri Lanka
This study investigated the dimensionality of a 21-item questionnaire measure of idiocentrism-allocentrism (the within-culture measure of individualism-collectivism) within the context of Sri Lankan culture. A survey of 438 Sri Lankan respondents, sampled from a wide variety of demographic contexts, provided data. Factor analysis indicated that idiocentrism and allocentrism are two independent, unipolar factors, rather than opposite poles of a si…
Flight from Blight and Metropolitan Suburbanization Revisited
Patterns of metropolitan suburbanization were analyzed for 51 large metropolitan areas. Migration data indicate that suburban population growth attributed to in-migration from outside the metropolitan area is substantially greater, on average, than that attributed to city-to-suburb migration. Distinguishing between these sources of suburban population growth, significant associations were found between metropolitan suburbanization and central-cit…
Why Narrative? Hermeneutics, Historical Understanding, and the Significance of Stories
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Flexibility in access, interaction and assessment
Potential benefits in re-engineering higher education using Internet-based programs appear promising (Hicks 1997, Geoghegan 1996). The objective of this paper is to report the outcomes of a web-based teaching program trial involving 550 undergraduate business students. The program, called TopClass , provides for private email, public conference discussions, easy and consistent delivery of resources and progress testing via the WWW. Prior Internet…
Why Narrative? Hermeneutics, Historical Understanding, and the Significance of Stories
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An Outcome Evaluation of the Woodrock Youth Development Project
The Woodrock Youth Development Project (YDP) aims to reduce alcohol tobacco, and drug (ATOD) use among adolescents. The YDP targets riskfactors thatpredispose youth to substance abuse, such as low self-esteem, unhealthy attitudes toward substance abuse, and lack of knowledge about drug effects. The YDP aims to improve problem-solving and coping skills, to raise awareness about the dangers of substance abuse, and to improve self-perception through…
Death, Narrative Integrity, and the Radical Challenge of Self-Understanding
Much contemporary theory suggests that, unlike works of biography or autobiography, human life itself is fundamentally comprised of disconnected moments and is thus devoid of literary form. People may seek to bind these moments together as narratives in the course of their efforts at self-understanding; but these narratives, it is often held, are little more than fictions or myths, impositions of form and order upon the flux of experience. In Tol…
Demographic Correlates of Individualism and Collectivism
The demographic correlates of idiocentrism and allocentrism (the within-culture measures of individualism and collectivism) were investigated in Sri Lanka. A sample of 438 Sri Lankan respondents, from a wide variety of demographic contexts, provided data for the study. Factor analysis revealed that idiocentrism and allocentrism in Sri Lanka are independent, unipolar factors, rather than opposites on a single, bipolar dimension. Socioeconomic stat…
Mythical Time, Historical Time, and The Narrative Fabric of the Self
Despite the belief that narrative may serve as an important vehicle for exploring human experience and selfhood, there frequently exists the paradoxical supposition that narrative accounts cannot help but falsify life itself: Insofar as time is viewed in fundamentally linear terms and experience, in turn, is viewed as that which simply "goes on" in time, narratives may be viewed as entailing an imposition of literary form upon that which is osten…
Experience, Narrative, and the Relationship Between Them
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Exploiting the web for education
Whilst not all the possibilities of face to face teaching can be replicated on the World Wide Web, some can be undertaken which are impossible face to face. A role simulation, a hybrid of a role play and a simulation, is one such possibility. Students can engage asynchronously as well as synchronously. Participants in group exercises can be identified or anonymous. Moderation can be direct or with minimal interference. A role simulation, integrat…
Theory Beyond Theory
Drawing on Toulmin's (1990) portrayal of the `dual trajectory of Modernity', the predominant trajectory being tied to Cartesian rationalism and the other to Renaissance humanism, it is suggested that much of contemporary theoretical psychology appears to be congruent with widespread efforts to reappropriate the latter tradition and thereby to `humanize' its inquiries. This apparent congruence notwithstanding, it is also suggested that much of the…
Case studies
Competitive pressures on universities to adopt flexible learning are intense. Many academics and managers are responding by incorporating web based learning (WBL) tools into the teaching environment. WBL tools have proliferated in recent years, and some can be used to manage entire courses. The simplicity of WBL systems, like WebCT, TopClass and Blackboard, makes their use in teaching an option for many academics, even those operating without ins…
Religion's Threat to Theoretical Understanding
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