Graham Badley
Biographic Data
| ID | 90026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Badley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Badley |
| SIGNATURE | BADLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Utopian Hopes? Dystopian Fears
I use a discussion about our human hopes for a this-worldly utopia as a counter-choice to allowing the world to drift or neglect its way into its own forms of dystopia. The signs are clear, including those of climate change and increasing authoritarianism
The pragmatic university: A Feasible Utopia
‘Imaginings’ of the modern university include such ideas as ‘the ecological university’ and ‘the pragmatic university’. In his attempt to separate utopian from dystopian visions of the university, Ronald Barnett concentrates on an analysis of the ecological university and ignores, for example, the case of the pragmatic university. In this critical response the author focuses on the feasibility of the pragmatic university and argues that it easily…
Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Qualitative Comedy in the Making
A discussion about bricolage is presented in a one-act play, a qualitative comedy in the making. The play takes its initial shape from Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" but is transformed into a more academic, but occasionally comic, dialogue. The characters engage with a journal editor by weaving the ideas and often the words of academic writers into a script about bricolage as a qualitative research strategy. The characters, …
Lost in the Funhouse
In this dialogue one actor ("the interlocutor") questions another ("the funster") about his claim to have been and to be still lost in the funhouse. The funhouse is used as a metaphor for the universities in which the funster has studied or worked throughout his career. The funster claims that the dialogue provides a brief life-story that he admits is both a faction of verifiable life-facts and a fiction of imagined life-fables. The funhouse is d…
Leavesdropping on Two Men Talking: A Dream Inquiry
This inquiry is presented as a Borges-like dream. The inquirer dreams that two men talk about their writing. The dreamer tries to understand what they are saying, what they mean. Their talk appears full of abstractions and jargon — connectivity, faciality, haecceity, masculinities, multiplicities, subjectivities. Another character, George Orwell, enters the dream to harrumph at the pretentious diction the two men use. One of them sees their colla…
Two Nomads Writing: A Textor’s Review
“Between the Two” by Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt has been praised as methodologically significant and pedagogically important. Indeed reviewers may well struggle to challenge a book variously described as beautiful, brilliant, evocative, erudite, original, profound, and sensitive. A critical or nonaffirmative review may well be received as sour and curmudgeonly. Nevertheless, despite this risk, an attempt is made to critique the book in the form …
Case Notes for the Impeachment of an Ability Traitor: A Textor’s Inquiry
These case notes are a response to “An ability traitor at work: A treasonous call to subvert writing from within.” The notes analyze Holbrook’s treachery despite her own admission of guilt. The inquiry is meant to provide firmer grounds for impeachment. The main accusation is that, as an able teacher and writer, Holbrook appears guilty of a trahison des clercs. The case writer is, like Holbrook, a textor, a weaver of threads, a fabricator of text…
A Place From Where to Speak: The University and Academic Freedom
the university is promoted as ‘a place from where to speak’. Academic freedom is examined as a crucial value in an increasingly uncertain age which resonates with Barnett's concern to encourage students to overcome their ‘fear of freedom’. My concern is that the putative university space of freedom and autonomy may well become constricted by those who would limit not just our freedom to speak but also our freedoms to be and to do. Without academi…
Don't Stop the Carnival-Three Cheers for the RCE
The Theoretical and Conceptual Bases of Instructional Design
Lost in the Funhouse
In this dialogue one actor ("the interlocutor") questions another ("the funster") about his claim to have been and to be still lost in the funhouse. The funhouse is used as a metaphor for the universities in which the funster has studied or worked throughout his career. The funster claims that the dialogue provides a brief life-story that he admits is both a faction of verifiable life-facts and a fiction of imagined life-fables. The funhouse is d…
A Place From Where to Speak: The University and Academic Freedom
the university is promoted as ‘a place from where to speak’. Academic freedom is examined as a crucial value in an increasingly uncertain age which resonates with Barnett's concern to encourage students to overcome their ‘fear of freedom’. My concern is that the putative university space of freedom and autonomy may well become constricted by those who would limit not just our freedom to speak but also our freedoms to be and to do. Without academi…
The pragmatic university: A Feasible Utopia
‘Imaginings’ of the modern university include such ideas as ‘the ecological university’ and ‘the pragmatic university’. In his attempt to separate utopian from dystopian visions of the university, Ronald Barnett concentrates on an analysis of the ecological university and ignores, for example, the case of the pragmatic university. In this critical response the author focuses on the feasibility of the pragmatic university and argues that it easily…
Case Notes for the Impeachment of an Ability Traitor: A Textor’s Inquiry
These case notes are a response to “An ability traitor at work: A treasonous call to subvert writing from within.” The notes analyze Holbrook’s treachery despite her own admission of guilt. The inquiry is meant to provide firmer grounds for impeachment. The main accusation is that, as an able teacher and writer, Holbrook appears guilty of a trahison des clercs. The case writer is, like Holbrook, a textor, a weaver of threads, a fabricator of text…
Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Qualitative Comedy in the Making
A discussion about bricolage is presented in a one-act play, a qualitative comedy in the making. The play takes its initial shape from Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" but is transformed into a more academic, but occasionally comic, dialogue. The characters engage with a journal editor by weaving the ideas and often the words of academic writers into a script about bricolage as a qualitative research strategy. The characters, …
The Theoretical and Conceptual Bases of Instructional Design
Don't Stop the Carnival-Three Cheers for the RCE
A Place From Where to Speak: The University and Academic Freedom
the university is promoted as ‘a place from where to speak’. Academic freedom is examined as a crucial value in an increasingly uncertain age which resonates with Barnett's concern to encourage students to overcome their ‘fear of freedom’. My concern is that the putative university space of freedom and autonomy may well become constricted by those who would limit not just our freedom to speak but also our freedoms to be and to do. Without academi…
Case Notes for the Impeachment of an Ability Traitor: A Textor’s Inquiry
These case notes are a response to “An ability traitor at work: A treasonous call to subvert writing from within.” The notes analyze Holbrook’s treachery despite her own admission of guilt. The inquiry is meant to provide firmer grounds for impeachment. The main accusation is that, as an able teacher and writer, Holbrook appears guilty of a trahison des clercs. The case writer is, like Holbrook, a textor, a weaver of threads, a fabricator of text…
Leavesdropping on Two Men Talking: A Dream Inquiry
This inquiry is presented as a Borges-like dream. The inquirer dreams that two men talk about their writing. The dreamer tries to understand what they are saying, what they mean. Their talk appears full of abstractions and jargon — connectivity, faciality, haecceity, masculinities, multiplicities, subjectivities. Another character, George Orwell, enters the dream to harrumph at the pretentious diction the two men use. One of them sees their colla…
Two Nomads Writing: A Textor’s Review
“Between the Two” by Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt has been praised as methodologically significant and pedagogically important. Indeed reviewers may well struggle to challenge a book variously described as beautiful, brilliant, evocative, erudite, original, profound, and sensitive. A critical or nonaffirmative review may well be received as sour and curmudgeonly. Nevertheless, despite this risk, an attempt is made to critique the book in the form …
Lost in the Funhouse
In this dialogue one actor ("the interlocutor") questions another ("the funster") about his claim to have been and to be still lost in the funhouse. The funhouse is used as a metaphor for the universities in which the funster has studied or worked throughout his career. The funster claims that the dialogue provides a brief life-story that he admits is both a faction of verifiable life-facts and a fiction of imagined life-fables. The funhouse is d…
Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Qualitative Comedy in the Making
A discussion about bricolage is presented in a one-act play, a qualitative comedy in the making. The play takes its initial shape from Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" but is transformed into a more academic, but occasionally comic, dialogue. The characters engage with a journal editor by weaving the ideas and often the words of academic writers into a script about bricolage as a qualitative research strategy. The characters, …
The pragmatic university: A Feasible Utopia
‘Imaginings’ of the modern university include such ideas as ‘the ecological university’ and ‘the pragmatic university’. In his attempt to separate utopian from dystopian visions of the university, Ronald Barnett concentrates on an analysis of the ecological university and ignores, for example, the case of the pragmatic university. In this critical response the author focuses on the feasibility of the pragmatic university and argues that it easily…
Utopian Hopes? Dystopian Fears
I use a discussion about our human hopes for a this-worldly utopia as a counter-choice to allowing the world to drift or neglect its way into its own forms of dystopia. The signs are clear, including those of climate change and increasing authoritarianism
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