Saturday, November 17, 2007

Big word bingo

Am just reading Stephen Ball's 'Intellectuals or technicians?' article and am having a wading through treacle moment, so to lighten the mood... I'm noting down all the big / complex words from his article and play 'big word bingo' with all the other course texts in the hopes of finding something more difficult to read!

So... mark your cards with...

nosologies
parsimonious
adumbrated
panopticon
polyvalent
concomitant
ameliorative
hegemonic
imbricated
proselytising
ontological
epistemological
dispositif
semiotic

Mind you... having trawled through the whole thing, it is quite an interesting, thought-provoking article.  I just wish he hadn't tripped over and swallowed a dictionary on his way to typing it up... 

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