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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 months

Fast academia is toxic and should not be celebrated. It makes people sick and transforms a vocation into something vocational. Write fewer things and enjoy what you write. Focus on novelty over quantity. Learn from and support each other.

Ashley Ruba, PhD

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How I published 13 first-author papers during my 2.5 year post-doc: - All the data were already collected - 5 papers were literature reviews - I read incredibly fast - I write even faster

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Andrew W. Wilkins

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4 years

Can colleagues stop telling students to only cite recent literature. It is limiting, misguided, unhelpful. It mistakenly assumes a continuity, logical progression of old to new when in reality literature is a field of struggles, omissions, invasions, ploys

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3 months

On Monday I find out if I can keep my job. Wish me luck everyone. Solidarity and strength to all friends and colleagues at Goldsmiths facing this difficult situation.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

My response in a staff wellbeing survey: If higher education cares about staff mental health then it should produce realistic workload models instead of offering free yoga classes.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

‘The university is a critical institution or it is nothing’ Stuart Hall #SaveGoldsmiths

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

6 years

For academics who advise others not to write book chapters but instead focus on journal articles. One of my book chapters was cited in an UNESCO report on education in Latin Amercia. #writebookchapters

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

9 months

There is no better feeling than seeing your book in print. Our new book Keywords in Education Policy from @policypress available for preorder here: A love letter to a field of inspiration

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

I'm pleased to announce that I will be Director of Research (with Farzana Shain) in the Dept of Education Studies, Goldsmiths, 2021 onwards. I look forward to working with our amazing staff to continue building our excellent research culture and infrastructure.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Excited to announce this November I will be joining Goldsmiths, University of London as Reader in Education. Will miss friends and colleagues from University of East London. It is the people who make an institution and the people at University of East London are some of the best

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Bourdieu: the symbolic power attributed to different forms of cultural capital is contingent on the social class preferences embedded within our education systems Ofsted: cultural capital is what middle-class children have and working-class children lack

Ofsted plan to inspect ‘cultural capital’ in schools attacked as elitist

The inspectors’ new catchphrase shows ‘white, middle-class paternalism’ that will alienate many students, critics say

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

8 months

My new #openaccess paper with @DeniseMifsud4 published in @JEdPolicy captures the struggles over meanings of governance in education research/policy. Please share with others especially students. A thread🧵⬇️

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

RIP Professor Clyde Chitty (1944-2022) 'I just think the whole idea of setting aside people,[labelling] children, is wrong because I still believe you have to think that every child in front of you has amazing ability'

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Coming soon

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Happy to announce I've signed a contract with Palgrave to write Keywords in Global Education Policy: A Research Guide. A state-of-the-art reference for researchers, educators and students.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Academics who celebrate metrics and league tables, even when they do it in that ironical detached way, are the handmaidens of neoliberalism. There is no ethical-political safe space from which performativity can be enjoyed and denied at the same time. Enjoyment is complicity

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Are you interested in studying a #PhD in education policy and comparative education at Goldsmiths, University of London? Bursaries and studentships available through SeNSS, CHASE, department of ed studies. I'm looking to support strong applicants. DM me for a #phdchat

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

9 months

Are you a #PhD student in #education ? Or a lecturer teaching education? We have created an essential reference, learning and teaching tool to support you. Includes over 90 keywords from the field of education. Use JAN50 for 50% off

Keywords in Education Policy Research

Keywords in Education Policy Research - A Conceptual Toolbox; Designed as a reference, learning and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers, this book describes the history,...

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Here is why I don’t like the term ‘celebrity academic’ 1) conflates academic worth with popularity 2) fetishises the cult of the narcisstic personality 3) cultivates reverence for the individual over knowledgeable production 4) promotes status as an objective of academic work

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

We did it! Massive thanks to amazing collaborators @Steb7Steve @NelliPiattoeva New monograph complete and sent to publisher @policypress 98 keywords spanning multiple sociologies and fields A reference, learning and teaching tool for students, educators and researchers

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Preparing a paper for submission to a journal? Here are some handy tips on what editors and reviewers typically look for in a good paper. A 🧵 1/12

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Data analysis plan versus data analysis process

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Writing is 50% editing

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Just received a rejection letter for a paper I submitted to Journal of Education Policy. It gets worse. I am Associate Regional Editor - Europe for this journal. Good thing I started drinking at noon today.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Thanks but I don’t want a yoga class. I want accurate workload modelling that lets me take control of my mental health

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

I’m giving away two copies of my 2018 book Education Governance and Social Theory. Retweet/like this for a chance to receive a copy. I’ll select two winners at random on 30 November. Must reside in UK. #phdchat #phd #phdlife #theory #education

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Positivists looking at constructivists

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

My friend works in higher education but cant afford to put the heating on or have a pint down the pub. Mentally and physically exhausted by a job they desperately want to love but which demands too much and rewards too little. HE is broken. We need change #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

I was asked to speak to some doctoral students over the weekend about academic writing A thread ⬇️

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Interested in theories and methods of education policy analyses and their epistemologies, genealogies, applications? New book co-authored with @Steb7Steve @NelliPiattoeva coming later this year. Keywords in Global Education Policy: A Research Guide (2022) Contents 👇

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Writing a book chapter on education policy studies with a section on 'major thinkers'. Who are yours? List so far: Stephen J. Ball Diane Reay Jenny Ozga Geoff Whitty Mark Olssen Bob Lingard Trevor Gale Michael Apple Helen Gunter

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

qualitative phd students learning quantitative research methods

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 months

congratulations to @dbrentejr @VergerAntoni @mckenzia K. takayama on their new book now in print!! Our chapter with @tomasesper @ColletJordi B. Gobby, E. Grimaldi traces the uneven movement of NPM globally. A great resource for comparative and international education scholars

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

8 months

My new book chapter with @tomasesper @ColletJordi Gobby & Grimaldi published in new book edited by @dbrentejr @mckenzia @VergerAntoni traces global/national assemblages of new public management Please share and read full paper here:

D. Brent Edwards Jr.

@dbrentejr

8 months

One step closer to publication. We have the copy-edited proofs. Be on the lookout for this in July. Or check out the panel about the book at CIES. @VergerAntoni @andewilkins @tomasesper @mckenzia @clarafontdevila @AndreuTermes @GulsonKalervo @EngelLC

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

10 months

We are extremely grateful to @boblingard86 and Emiliano Grimaldi for these very generous endorsements of our new book. Book launch coming in the new year. Watch this space

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

6 years

Received proofs for our new book! Foreword by Kenneth J. Saltman. Contributors inc @NelliPiattoeva @BenPatrickWill @GFThommo @GulsonKalervo @DrJacqueBaxter @N_Papanastasiou @socialtheoryapp @hstevenson10 @lluisparcerisa

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

The beginning of every literature review

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Can we please stop calling it ‘knowledge exchange’. Nothing is being exchanged, transferred or deposited either as a form of giving or bartering. Knowledge is co-produced, embodied, contested, lived, refused.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

This is me writing at home

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

New books arrived #foucault #governmentality #governance

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

8 years

It's arrived!!! My new book! Available to buy here

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

We are excited to announce the Education Policy Futures (EPF) events schedule for 2022-24. Cutting-edge research, commentary and debate on global education. Please share and encourage others to join our forum. Follow us @EPFutures . Further details:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Cash-poor universities underinvesting in staff competing with cash-rich universities in a league table game of false equivalences is a joke. The game is rigged. There is no accurate measurement of ‘excellence’. Just skewed representations of uneven wealth distribution

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Watching as colleagues celebrate journal impact scores and attack the metricisation of academic knowledge/work in the same breath

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

New book chapter in which I use critical ethnography to document how stakeholder participation in education governance is made conditional by specifiable limits and finalities that reflect/uphold government ideals of market regulation. DM/email for a pdf copy

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Six months since I had microshunt surgery to reduce raised eye pressure caused by glaucoma and the pressure is now stable at 11 (28/29 before surgery). Hopefully I can continue to read and write long into the future without worrying about sight loss. Thanks to @Moorfields #NHS

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Paper submitted Paper published

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Can academics stop encouraging their students at all levels to reduce complex realities to neat, tidy expressions of ‘neoliberalism’ as structural power/oppression. All this creates is a flat ontology and reduced understanding of what is a contingent, emergent, contested reality

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

6 years

Highlight of my career so far: I've been invited to join the advisory board at Journal of Education Policy. My favourite journal!

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

I was recently asked by a student how to structure a 150 word abstract for a journal paper. Not easy! And not something I've thought about much tbh. Here are my thoughts in case they are useful to anyone. Below is taken from something I'm working on #phdchat #phdlife #ecrchat

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

First draft of new paper complete. What is governance? Framings, functions and discourses Excited to get this one out into the world and hear what people think

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Here are some great journals for those working at the intersection of comparative/global education studies and interpretive/critical policy studies

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Goldsmiths SMT is laying off 163 academics on fixed term contracts + 309 Associate Lecturers, Graduate Trainee Tutors (75% of which are BAME). Please show your support for their demands: contract extensions, clarity on futures, meaningful negotiations #saveourjobs @CleanersFor

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Cross-institutional large grant proposal submitted to the ESRC. Wish us luck!!

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Correction: it is capitalism, not academics, who put up paywalls

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Some good news today. My appointment as External Examiner for MSc in Education, Public Policy and Equity, University of Glasgow, has been confirmed. I look forward to working with them.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Next book project underway: Genealogies of power: A history of parents and education reform Uses Foucault's genealogical method to trace the role of parents as consumers, governors, producers, as supplement and support to neoliberal education reform

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Im excited to write this. We need to talk more about the role of school autonomy as a risk-producing mechanism that helps to secure/legitimate forms of market discipline and privatisation. Like if you agree 👍

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

16 years together and still best friends ❤️

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Thrilled to accept the invitation to join the editorial board @CritStudsEd . I look forward to working with an excellent team of colleagues. Latest issue here:

Critical Studies in Education

Volume 65, Issue 4 of Critical Studies in Education

www.tandfonline.com

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Close to sourcing all material for next book: Keywords in global education policy. A reference guide for education policy researchers. New concepts/methods recently added include digital policy sociology, queer policy analysis and critical policy ethnography.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Delighted to be awarded two SIG Best Presentation Awards for my talks at #BERA2023 @BERANews

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Next writing project. A book chapter on ‘deconstructing governance’ for edited collection. Essential reading 👇

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

THRILLED to be invited to give a keynote in Beijing in December for a conference on 'innovation-driven education development', jointly organised by Education University of Hong Kong, Beijing Normal University, Monash University. Will discuss problematics and puzzles of governance

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

This paper was a slog but so worth it and great to see it published. New #openacess research article from @bradgobby and I in which we use a governmentality approach to discuss the epistemological role of risk to reforms of education governance

Objects and subjects of risk: a governmentality approach to education governance

Across the globe school autonomy reforms have been criticised for opening up public assets to various dangers or risks, from misappropriation of public monies by private sponsors to secretive gover...

www.tandfonline.com

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Proofs are finally here! Keywords in education policy research: A conceptual toolbox @policypress Pre-order your library and/or personal copy here:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

When your research paper is 10,000 words instead of the required 7,000

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

The neoliberal university is NOT what students want. It is NOT what staff want. Unscrupulous management, zombie leadership, empty performative work, casualised labour, ‘rockstar’ academics, window dressing, PR-production and shiny new buildings. Solidarity with @ucu #ucuRISING

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Retweet if you are old enough to remember what this is

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

It is ten years since I completed my PhD and I still revisit it when I'm writing. Too many people think the PhD is something to 'move beyond' after completion, perhaps a symptom of wider pressures to demonstrate research versatility. But trust me. Your PhD is your 'purest' work

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

How you considered the importance of risk to market reforms of education? Is risk a product of markets and/or essential to their design? See our new open access paper in Globalisation, Societies and Education:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

I've just sat down to write a new research bid😩😩😩YOU know that feeling. Need to focus thinking first. This helps structure writing. Here is a good one for research bid writing:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

9 months

New changes to @JEdPolicy editorial board announced. Im so proud to be attached to this journal. We are very lucky to have the support of so many amazing scholars. The future is bright for JEP. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Journal of Education Policy

@JEdPolicy

9 months

We are excited to announce the following changes to our editorial board: @andewilkins : Co-Editor in Chief @CLub_edu : Associate Regional Editor (North America and Global) Emma Rowe: Associate Regional Editor (Southeast Asia) Emiliano Grimaldi: Associate Regional Editor (Europe)

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Been invited to serve as Journal of Education Policy's Associate Regional Editor - Europe. Nice

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Coming Jan 2024! Keywords in Education Policy Research: A Conceptual Toolbox Please recommend to your libraries. Pre-order your copy here:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

7 months

Are you a scholar/student of - education governance - comparative/international education - policy sociology - digital education - environmental/sustainability policy - policy network analysis - policy ethnography - scalar/spatial policy Then you need to follow @JEdPolicy 🔥🔥

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Peer review for others as you want be peer reviewed fair, balanced, constructive, justifiable

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Paper Paper submitted accepted

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

I have joined editorial board @AER_AARE and accepted invitation to be assessor @arc_gov_au I am now a honorary Aussie

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

eminent professor takes two months and a deadline extension to write a one-sentence (seven word) review of a journal article

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

I've been on leave from work too long...or not long enough. Just walked to the bus stop in my slippers.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

A professor explaining the joys of the phd viva experience to a research student

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Wow! This 👇 from a UK undergraduate student. Powerful indictment of the challenges facing critical-activist students learning in the neoliberal university

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

Journal of Education Policy has arrived 👇 cc @soniabean @pburchusc @AliceJBradbury @KatjaBroegger @Taehee__Choi @kellycoate @ColletJordi @Radgorur @IanHardy_UQ @ahogie1 @JessLHolloway @NelliPiattoeva @glenncsavage @ThomsonPat @BenPatrickWill @MarkOlssen @CLub_edu @Jess_Gerrard

Journal of Education Policy

@JEdPolicy

2 years

Journal of Education Policy now has a twitter handle! Follow us for regular updates on original, critical, theoretically informed research and analysis on policy making and policy worlds

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

'Major thinkers' in education policy studies, according to #AcademicTwitter

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

The abstract The conclusion

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

6 years

Stephen Ball speaking against the development of alternatives in favour of thinking differently about education as self-transformation and unlearning, where failure, crises and limits are productive, opportunities for transformation/deconstruction #BERA2018

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

6 years

How can we use Foucault’s philosophy of refusal and transgression to rethink education and provoke experimental, emancipatory spaces in which subjects might become other than current systems, structures, practices, discourses allow for? The thread below offers essential reading

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 years

For the first time excited for the new academic year. I have restructured my dissertation module. Done away with 'outdated' lecture format. Introduced weekly 2 hr student-focused 'research labs' to improve 121 support. Far more effective way to respond to student need/progression

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Reviewer 1 likes your work but reviewer 2...

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 months

My new #openaccess paper with lead author @philmnicholson published in @JEdPolicy documents the role of local government as translators for and brokers of school partnerships during times of crisis. A timely reminder of their impact and contribution

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Please join us for what will be a fascinating talk by Professor Jenny Ozga, hosted by @GoldsmithsEduc1 . Register to participate remotely by scanning the code below or via this link:

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

1 year

Teaching or learning about education policy research? Our book discusses over 90 keywords from assemblage and fast policy to problematisation and typology. Essential reading for mapping the field. Pre-order for special summer sale price of £12.49

Keywords in Education Policy Research

Keywords in Education Policy Research - A Conceptual Toolbox; Designed as a reference, learning and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers, this book describes the history,...

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Great to hear Stephen Ball reflect on his upbringing and career, what Stephen calls the journey from the welfare state to the neoliberal state or from school milk to the REF

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

Planning the literature review versus doing the literature review

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Such a honour and pleasure to meet the Dalai Lama. A remarkable human being with a compassionate heart and infectious smile. Meeting was organised to compliment global forum Human Education in the Third Millennium in #dharamshala #india

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

2 months

So proud of my neighbours and community in North Finchley in solidarity against racism. We are multicultural, multiracial, multifaith. We are England. Go home facists!

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

5 years

Snobbery in higher education, especially when it concerns where you work, is so tiresome and irksome. I'm so sick of insecure academics who need to conflate their own and others self-worth to the 'prestige' of their affiliated institution. Get a life!!

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

4 years

All writing is unfinished and incomplete

Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

What is the best academic writing tip you ever received?

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Andrew W. Wilkins

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4 years

The ‘best’ advice given to me by my supervisor at the beginning of my PhD was ‘this will be a struggle, you won’t earn a lot of money and the outcome is uncertain’. I suspect fewer ppl would do a PhD if told the same thing.

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Andrew W. Wilkins

@andewilkins

3 years

Dear authors submitting manuscripts Please bear with us while we find suitable, willing reviewers for your paper during a series of unending global crises. Thank you for your patience. Editor

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