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| Matthew McFall |
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PhD Research Student |
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B3 Exchange Building LSRI, University of
Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB |
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+44 (0)115 8467672 |
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+44(0)115 84 67931 |
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ttxmsm@nottingham.ac.uk |
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| Current status |
Writing up |
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| Expected completion date |
2010
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| Research Topic |
'Magic, Puzzles, and Games as Tools for Learning'
'Working with Wonder' 'Wonder Learning'
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| Summary of Research |
I am seeking ways to bring manifold 'wonder' to classrooms/ learning spaces, with the intent of generating engagement, delight, curiosity, and memorable educational experiences.
This magpie project draws from history, philosophy, and psychology, leading to the generation of a theory of learning through wonder, with the production of accompanying artefacts and curricula: 'a box of learning delights'.
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| Research Supervisors |
Dr Shaaron Ainsworth (Psych), Prof Mike Sharples (Education)
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| Primary Funding Source |
Education
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| School Research Theme |
Playful and Game Based Learning
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| Other Research Interests |
Cabinets of Curiosities
Labyrinths and Mazes
Histories of Trickery
Conjuring Apparatus and Analogue Ingenuity
Happenings
| Motivation |
The Object Lesson |
Taoism |
| Surprise |
Natural History |
Buddhism |
| Curiosity |
Lichen |
Mythology |
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Taxonomy |
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My first doctorate (DPhil, Oxon 1998) was in macabre and humorous fiction. My interest in this field remains undiminished…
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| Publications |
1994-2002: Ghost writer and editor
1998: ‘John Collier (1901-1980): Life and Writings’ D.Phil.
1999: Obituary, Yvonne Kapp, Independent
2001-2004: Writer for the New Dictionary of National Biography
2007: Photographs: images in Mystery Photo, Alexander Stevenson
In Progress:
Daedalus Unbound
Voracity
A Guide to the Playful Life
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| Selected Gigs |
| 'Boxes of learning delight and cabinets of curiosity: working with wonder for wonderful learning' |
Invited Speaker, ALT-C, Manchester, September 2009 http://alt-c.blip.tv/file/2620047/ |
| 'Visualizing Wondrous Realms: Cabinets of Curiosities as Meaningful Arrays.' |
Gordon Research Conference, Oxford, July 2009 |
| 'Seeds of Wonder' |
Cheltenham Science Festival June 2009 |
| 'Wonder in Carbonland' |
Royal Society Summer Exhibition, July 2008 |
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BA Science Festival, Liverpool, September 2008 |
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| 'Conjuring Learning' |
QIPRC, Oxford, July 2008 |
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'Cabinet of Tiny Curiosities'
for 'Nanoworlds'
(with Lizzie Burns) |
Cambridge Festival of Ideas,
October 2008 |
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