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January 26, 2021

The Lego of Collegium: Students as architect of the undergraduate curriculum

This guest post comes from Talisha Schilder, Johan Adriaensen and Patrick Bijsmans, all of Maastricht University. One of the key questions regarding Higher Education (HE) curriculums is concerned with the extent to which a curriculum should be flexible. For our own undergraduate studies, the curriculum consists of a relatively fixed set of courses. This set-up …

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February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

Political readings of “Lego Movie 2”

A few years back I wrote about the The Lego Movie and how it captured the operation of fascism in a form that was both accessible and about as enjoyable as fascism ever can be. Some readers of this blog were unhappy that I’d ruined that film for them, so it’s only right I try …

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March 20, 2018March 20, 2018

More Lego, more production values

Long-standing readers of this blog will know that Lego has been a regular presence in my practice. Whether for creative play or for insights into political theory, it’s a great medium. Part of my use of it has been in videos. Many years ago, I made a little piece about electoral reform with the help …

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September 9, 2014June 29, 2016

Can we do all our learning & teaching using Lego?

Off the back of the great response to my post last week on The Lego Movie (apologies again to Borja Garcia for ruining his enjoyment of said film), I have obviously returned to the subject, albeit in a slightly different way. While searching for the official movie website, I stumbled across Lego Serious Play. ‘Stumbled’ …

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September 2, 2014July 31, 2015

Political readings of ‘The Lego Movie’

As I return from my annual break on the sun-kissed shores of Cornwall, I worry that I have almost singularly failed to think about learning, teaching or any other aspect of my work. Moreover, by foregoing the opportunity to attend UACES’ annual conference in Cork I’ve also missed out on some great L&T papers that I …

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May 8, 2012February 13, 2015

More Lego-based learning

This weekend I’ve been learning about learning from a young boy of my acquaintance. Upon arrival at a weekend of wedding celebrations for his aunt, he discovered that while he had brought his recently-acquired Lego X-Wing starfighter – dismantled into its 400 or so individual bricks – he had left the instructions back home. After some …

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October 13, 2025October 10, 2025

Pedagogy Today: ISA’s New Resource

This week, the International Studies Association launched ‘Pedagogy Today’, a web resource of articles on teaching in the field. Right now there are two articles, Levelling the Playing Field: Leveraging LEGO for Playful Learning and Pedagogical Principles of Care: An Introduction and Practical Guide. ISA is inviting those interested to submit their own articles. This …

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September 1, 2025November 21, 2025

September (and the inaugural) SoTL Roundup

On a late night call at the end of August, the ALPS Editors got together to ponder future columns for the blog (as well as the shocking lack of kettle infrastructure across America). A heap of ideas came to the fore, more of which you will read about in the coming weeks. This blog is …

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January 30, 2024January 29, 2024

You Can’t Go Home Again?*

As part of my first-ever sabbatical, I have jumped into the way-back machine: after almost thirty years, I am once again a student. When I last frantically scribbled notes in a classroom, I was learning Vietnamese in Vietnam. Now it’s Arabic in Jordan. Some of the benefits of jumping to the other side of the …

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March 17, 2023

Notes from a conference II

Apart from my worries, ISA is also making me think about the purpose of teaching. I’d been thinking about this anyway, partly because of this post from John Warner that popped up on my timeline recently. The instrumentalisation of education as a stepping stone to the next thing, working, has been around for a long …

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