How can critical realism be put to practical use? Free online book discussion @crnetwork.bsky.social 5th Feb as @jpelonga.bsky.social and I talk about a CR approach to educational leadership. Responses from @helengunter.bsky.social & Lakshman Wimalasena Register www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

@jpelonga.bsky.social and I have written a blog about our newly published book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with thanks to @crnetwork.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for their support #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education

Day conference in London (13 Nov) The Common Good in Organisations- enabling ways of organizing to prevent harm and better serve the common good. Speakers @jo-berry.bsky.social (Building bridges for Peace founder) & Stephen Cherry (author of ‘Unforgiveable?’) Details eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-common...

Our book in the @routledgebooks.bsky.social series in @crnetwork.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social More details at www.routledge.com/Educational-... including access to the opening chapter. Please tell your librarian. #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education

Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University #CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy

An inventory of Margaret Archer’s publications from her 1967 PhD thesis to her 2024 posthumous book ‘Morphogenesis answers its critics’ has been compiled by the Centre for Social Ontology, which she founded in 2011. This blog explains more with suitable CR epistemic humility

The authors contend that critical realism enables social work to achieve its highest potential, harmonizing with the field's core values to catalyze profound transformation and fulfill its most ambitious ideals.

From January 2026, #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics will be available from Cambridge University Press edited by Jérémie Bouchard and Karin Zotzmann. My chapter (ch. 5) argues for a human and humane approach to #AcademicWriting in which truth matters. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

A critical realist approach is recommended to help explain how recovery capital is or is not deployed according to context, and how beneficial outcomes are produced.

David Pilgrim asks 'how do we make our best judgment about what happened in the past when faced with competing personal accounts?' in this carefully constructed and argued paper involving an application of CR.

Watch the book launch from the latest publication from the Routledge Studies in Critical Realism series ‪@crnetwork.bsky.social‬ ‘Codes of corruption’ by Karin Zotzmann uses CR discourse analysis to examine rich conversational transcripts of illicit transactions.

Interesting contribution to the debate about what might be basic tenets of critical realism through the idea of threshold concepts. There's subtlety in their argument that these concepts help those new to CR to understand what's going on, rather than ones that all critical realists hold.

Opinion | I Am Captcha: ‘Ghost’ Students and the AI Machine Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3XaL5X8

Judgmental rationality as one of the 'trinity'/ 'pillars' of critical realism.

I enjoyed this on many levels, not least bcos it: - exemplifies an #AcWri genre that differs from the usual suspects - relays a candid roundtable discussion - provides 'companionshiip for further thought' (L. Back) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #JudgementalRationality #CriticalRealism #Theory