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Critical realism, education policy, philosophy of social science, psychoanalysis, psychology, spirituality. Recent articles explore replication crisis in psychology & realist social theory and ed policy. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob-Archer-4
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📃 Call for Papers 📃
“How conceptual analysis, philosophical argument, and theoretical modelling can inform and reshape psychological inquiry across cognitive, developmental, and social domains”
Summary Due: 24/05/26
Submission Due: 11/09/26
Editor: @kennycoventry.bsky.social
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From the legacy of 1968 to today’s challenges, Gerhard Mayer, Research Fellow at IGPP, reflects on tradition, openness, and the future of #parapsychology where #consciousness #research meets new perspectives and global horizons.
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Brilliant 🤩 It’s fascinating how reality itself is often ignored in order to maintain materialist ontology.
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Great conversation with Darren from the Seeking I podcast. We discuss children's strange experiences, the social world and what reality might be
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We've all heard about the replication crisis in psychology. But psychologists have been calling "crisis" for as long as the discipline has been around. Ali Teymoori and I look at this history and what it means for today's crisis. #philsky doi.org/10.1177/1089...
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📣 Call for Papers: (Re-)Theorizing the Psyche
New Frontiers in Psychology Research Topic. Using the replication crisis as a lens on theory, ontology, methodology & epistemology in psychology.
#ReplicationCrisis #Psychology #Reproducibility #Replication
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"The dance of managerialism and professionalism" by Xingyuan Gao
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"an engaging and timely contribution to the fields of educational management, leadership, administration, and policy."
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Sociology + psychoanalysis: Mark Carrigan’s “My Psychoanalytical Turn” shows how Lacan, Margaret Archer, and Winnicott shaped his thinking. A reflective & unusually candid read. Highly recommend!
#ObjectRelations #Lacan #CriticalRealism #Winnicott #Bollas
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A similar tension has emerged in the current discussions surrounding the replication crisis. Reformers in the open science movement emphasize reproducible and stable effects, such that experimental outcomes support drawing inferences about psychological phenomena. In contrast, challengers of direct replication argue that a lack of consistent experimental effects signifies either underdevelopment in the theoretical framework or variability across time, context, setting, and procedure, hinting at a flexible construction of the object of psychological investigation (cf. Feest, 2024; Morawski, 2022). Hence, the disagreement goes deeper than research practices and stems at least in part from different understandings of the ontological status of the psychic object (stable vs. flexible object).
"The disagreement goes deeper than research practices and stems at least in part from different understandings of the ontological status of the psychic object (stable vs. flexible object)."
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📜 ...another paper assigned to an issue now in @edreview.bsky.social, jointly with Meryem Betül YASDIMAN and Jenny Norris doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England
Very grateful for Prof Richard Niesche's review of Educational Leadership and Critical Realism (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) in REAL dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/real/...
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Prof Priscilla Alderson and A level student Harry Hubbard have made a series of 4 short videos introducing Critical Realism for A level students: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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🔶️ Call for Papers 🔶️
"(Re-)Theorizing the Psyche: Exploring Foundational Shifts in Psychological Science"
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New review in Educational Review: balancing managerialism with professionalism amounts to subtle apologism masking managerialism’s structural power as a neoliberal project.
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Call for papers for this special issue 'Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research
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22.12.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh no. I’m worried to ask if you did. I remember having to do send a selfie but certainly not credit card details. 😱
22.12.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Odd. Fortunately, it was easy to do, which I hope was the case for you.
22.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, but feels quite a while ago, Graham.
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New review in Educational Review: balancing managerialism with professionalism amounts to subtle apologism masking managerialism’s structural power as a neoliberal project.
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CRTGG...
#Managerialism #EducationPolicy #EducationalLeadership #Professionalism
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How can critical realism be put to practical use? Free online book discussion @crnetwork.bsky.social 5th Feb as @jpelonga.bsky.social and I talk about a CR approach to educational leadership. Responses from @helengunter.bsky.social & Lakshman Wimalasena Register www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
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Educational Review Article of the Year Award announcement. Monday 15th December, 5-6pm GMT. Winner: "Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools" by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan. Discussants: Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham; Laurence Lessard-Phillips, University of Birmingham. Chair: Jane Martin, University of Birmingham, Executive Editor, Educational Review. Sponsored by Routledge. Event webpage and registration: https:bit.ly/AotY2025
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‘Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools’ by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan
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