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SUMMARY:Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aa
 ch lay-professional encounter - Professor Sylvie Delacroix\, University of
  Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute
DTSTART:20190521T164500Z
DTEND:20190521T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anthony Pickles
DESCRIPTION:Habits ought to be celebrated: they not only make us who we ar
 e\, they also make us capable of wondrous feats\, whether they be of a pro
 fessional nature or not. Yet there are times when we wish we (or others) w
 eren’t such creatures of habit. When a doctor or bleary eyed legal offic
 ial insists on following patently inadequate\, routine proceedings in spit
 e of significant clues calling for critical\, renewed engagement on their 
 part\, they fall prey to what I have called the ‘compromising’ aspect 
 of habituation. It is not just a matter of adapting to changing circumstan
 ces. It is also a matter of retaining a willingness to question the pertin
 ence of the goals one associates with one’s professional practice. These
  goals are never settled in advance\, hinging as they do upon the specific
 ities of each lay-professional encounter.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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