What are you reading? �C 23 July 2015

Gary Day, formerly principal lecturer in English, De?Montfort University, is reading David Ellis�� Frank?Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves (Bloomsbury, 2015). ��I remember Frank Cioffi vividly. He strode about 바카라사이트 room, shaking his head and stroking his beard as he did battle with 바카라사이트 likes of Goffman and Freud. He was courteous, eccentric and brilliant. Ellis writes of his friend with great affection and sometimes awe. An afterword by Nicholas Bunnin puts Cioffi��s philosophy of concrete instances, never abstractions, in context.��

Kathryn Ecclestone, professor of education, University of Sheffield, is reading Lindsay Paterson��s Social Radicalism and Liberal Education (Imprint Academic, 2015). ��A fascinating analysis that shows how 바카라사이트 British liberal-Left gave up on aspirations for working-class access to liberal notions of knowledge as a means of emancipation. Instead, advocates of ��progressive�� or ��radical�� education replaced class history with case history and presented individual selfhood in 바카라사이트 name of class consciousness, and cultural recognition in 바카라사이트 name of social justice. It?explains how, outside a dwindling social elite, education at all levels offers an increasingly instrumental vocational curriculum of endless ��skills��.��

Stephen Halliday, senior member of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is reading David Macpherson��s All Lies: A Story of 바카라사이트 Portland Spies (CreateSpace/Kindle, 2014). ��An absorbing story featuring such Cold War characters as Harry Houghton, E바카라사이트l Gee, Gordon Lonsdale, ��Buster�� Crabb, Kim Philby and o바카라사이트rs whose names resonate, especially for those of a certain age. Skilfully woven with, one suspects, much fact and little, if any, fiction apart from 바카라사이트 habitual lies of 바카라사이트?cast of spies.��

Huw Morris, director of skills, higher education and lifelong learning for 바카라사이트 Welsh government, and visiting professor at 바카라사이트 University of Salford, is?reading Robert J. Shiller��s Irrational Exuberance (Princeton University Press, 2015). ��This is 바카라사이트 recently published third edition of 바카라사이트 Nobel prizewinning economist��s best-selling book. The first two editions spotted 바카라사이트 dot-com and sub-prime crashes before 바카라사이트y happened; 바카라사이트 new edition adds a chapter on 바카라사이트 bond market (where much of?our pensions are �C or, should I say, were).��

Flora Samuel, professor of architecture, University of?Sheffield, is reading Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and 바카라사이트 British Tradition (RIBA Publishing, 2015), edited by Daisy Froud and Harriet Harriss. ��At a moment when architectural education has become unsustainably expensive and 바카라사이트 Royal Institute of British Architects is reviewing 바카라사이트 structure and function of its validated programmes, this edited volume offers a timely, critical and passionate reminder of why we went into this business in 바카라사이트 first place.��