Deduction - generalisation from observations of specific instances

Induction - drawing a conclusion the validity, aptness, appropriateness of which relies on the quality
of the premises from which it is derived
To record what is “actually happening”, to describe exactly what is going on - what you write is more
likely to reflect what is happening than a general impression of those events
Journal to record details (that don’t seem important at the time)

Group presentations
Neoliberal turn of the education system - based on processes of exclusion and inclusion
Audit culture - ingrained practice
Ideology - ranking contains notions of economic/political power, serves to exclude those who don’t
have power, legitimizes those who already do
English capability - excludes those with fewer skills in the English language
Science of ranking has lead to competition of ranking institutions, more funding to these companies
than to education itself

How the use of social networking sites impact the experience of student university life
Source of support/socialization, from a student perspective whether these sites and be used to ease
socialization and assimilation into university life by academic departments
Participants = 7% of first year undergraduate population, mild bias to female social science students
97% had more friends on facebook since starting university
22% agreeing that facebook supported their academic education

Audit into other culture means including education - negative effects of neoliberal agenda through
political reflexivity
Power - government and university institutions
Illusion of self control - monitored by governmental norms that represent interests of higher
institutions
Invisible power- unconscious of government control through targets and standards, assimilating
neoliberal reform under the guise of competition for test results, teaching surveys, university
rankings &cS

Importance of not taking the current configuration for granted

Neoliberal reform, economic policy and capitalism experienced at the level of the everyday, student
experience (reduced contact time, class numbers, overcasualized staff)
Identity, belonging in an age of cuts and reform
Student resistance to government policy?

Outside of class, what do students learn at UWA about themselves and the world?

Inductive method
Rats - how knowledge or information is contained within the animal brain
A and B conditions taught to associate light with food, plus:
A - food with nausea
At the end of the experiment, when the light when on only the B group would approach the food
Robin Dunbar proposes that the rats were inferring that light meant food or nausea
If rats make inferences, then human beings make inferences, theories