the seventy-eighth episode of ventriloquy is inspired by Lansdowne Professor (applied cognitive science) Wolff-Michael Roth.
my colleagues and i met him briefly yesterday, and we talked about - and experienced first-hand - notions and problems of contested identities. i was introduced to Bourdieu's notions of 'field' and 'habitus', and was inspired to take these ideas further into present-day multicultural contexts, as well as the epistemologies of teaching.
Professor Roth teaches at the Faculty of Education Research, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
i deliberately did not record our conversation, but i bring you - in this 6.0 MB download - my thoughts and reflections on what i learned, while he chatted with Associate Professor Chee Yam San, Michael Tan, and myself for forty-minutes.
if you're wondering about the title of this post, you might be relieved to know that i'm wondering about it too :-)
Show notes:
- Professor Roth's homepage
- Pierre Bourdieu (wikipedia entry)
- social cognitivism (wikipedia entry)
