War on Open.
I am putting more time aside to think about open. Since my retirement at the beginning of 2023 I have reduced my professional commitments in order to increase time available […]
Author Archives: teresamac
In praise of goodbye
One week ago today we said a final goodbye to my Mum at her funeral in a local church. The church had been an important community during my late teens […]
Reflecting on autoethnography as a tool
The 30th ALT conference is about to take place at Warwick University and I am happy that I will be able to be there thanks to an invitation from ALT. […]
Time waits for no-one
I am currently sorting through my Mum and Dad’s home of some 50 years as Mum is now in a local care home. It is challenging to revisit things they […]
The winner takes it all.
I remember watching Mama Mia on a plane going on holiday some years ago. I had put the DVD onto a device I owned at the time and was deighted […]
Autonomy and the right to be.
Who decides what you can and can’t do? As adults we like to think we are in control of our thoughts and actions, that we have the tools to make […]
The state we’re in.
A central tennant of the Conservative Party is that of the small state. In other words: minimal governance and regulation, a belief in market forces and minimal commitment to citizens […]
Raise your voice!
I’m very aware that I haven’t been blogging for a while. Partly this is because I wanted to avoid transmitting the negativity I have been feeling thanks to the current […]
Money can’t buy …
The current background of political lies, lawbreaking and corruption in the UK (and elsewhere of course) has drawn my attention to the role of the press in masking truth and […]
Updating my personal story of #open
Looking through Twitter in preparation for the upcoming #OER22 conference I spotted an invitation on twitter to share our stories of serendipity and open. I followed this invitation and discovered […]
Espace Sisyphe 