Libraries Gave Us Power

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

(Eleanor Roosevelt

"• Flexible portfolio careers are increasingly common experience. They require the sophisticated application of a wide range of musical and generic/transferable skills, and more entrepreneurial attitudes towards work."

(Hallam & Gaunt 2012)

'Attempting to liberate [the oppressed] without their reflective participation in the active liberation is to treat them as objects which must be safe from a burning building.'

(Freire 1970, p.47)

'Knowledge is always situated within the groups of people who create it... is a collective endeavour among individuals who share a practice.' Recognition of this kind of knowledge, 'has inspired its take-up by continuing and higher education in terms of new forms of courses for a range of professions and disciplines, including professional doctorates linking professional development and practice-based knowledge production. Action Research has become a preferred methodology for many of these courses, on the understanding that practitioners need to build an evidence base to show the validity of what they are doing as competent researchers.' (McNiff 2013)

'A plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousnesses, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices.’

(Bakhtin 1984)

‘Learning the basics of how research works is important, not because every [teacher] should be a researcher, but because it allows [teachers] to be critical consumers of the new research findings that will come out during the many decades of their career.’

(Goldacre 2014)

‘cutting the costs of consumption by democratizing distribution’ (Anderson 2009) – has transformed the market for recorded music from a ‘hit’ economy to a ‘niche’ one (ibid) - and the general expectation that music ought to be ‘free’

Hysteresis: 'The structural lag between opportunities and the dispositions to grasp them which is the cause of missed opportunities'

(Bourdieu 1977)

‘conflicts between people of different identity, usually have at their base something other than the identity itself,’ namely ‘competition for resources’ which creates the conditions for those more divisive and conflicting identities to be ‘mobilised’.' (Appiah 2016)

Polyphonic Truth

D. Prof.

The Long Way Round...

Praxis

'In the UK, Potential Support Ratio or PSR – is set to fall from its current ratio of 3:1 to more or less 1:1 by 2050' (United Nations 2015, p.30)

'predicted increase in global population of over 30% - 9.6bn up from 7.3bn in 2015 - by 2050' (United Nations 2015, p.2)

'In the UK, the number of people aged 60 or over is set to rise by a third by 2050' (United Nations 2015, p.30)

'‘fertility in all European countries is now below the level required for full replacement of the population in the long run' (United Nations 2015, p.4)

‘The wealthiest, better educated and least ethnically diverse 8% of the population forms the most culturally active segment of all: between 2012 and 2015 they accounted (in the most conservative estimate possible) for 44% of attendances to live music, benefitting from £94 per head of Arts Council music funding.’

(Neelands et al. 2015, p.33)

'We [don't] know where we're going, but we CAN say where we've been.'

(Talking Heads 1985)

‘global growth prospects [to 2060) seem mediocre compared with the past,’

(OECD n.d., p.6)

‘‘earning inequality in the average OECD country may have risen by more than 30% (by 2060)’

(OECD n.d., p.6)

‘35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over the following 20 years’ (BBC News 2015)

Hysteresis

My Research

Journey...

Coming Out The Other End...

Why Research?

then work came and made us free...

Dr. Dave Camlin

BA (Hons), PGCE, DProf.

Conclusions

Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Researching