Mark Carrigan

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Why I’m so fascinated by education

This passage from Keri Facer’s superb Learning Futures (pg 21) captures why I’m so interested in education. I wrote a PhD on what I called personal morphogenesis: how we become who we are and how personal changes are bound up in social changes. The reason I’ve moved into education is because I want to understand how education mediates this relationship, helping or hindering adults to be as they seek to become who they are within a changing world:

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June 9, 2020
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