The More I Love, the More Careful I Want to Be

When my life overflows with people I love, I tend to be circumspect. When my life lacks love, I tend to the shock and awe approach.

Bacon called us lovers hostages to fortune. A man with a marriage, children, a congregation, an income, and friends who can be turned against him speaks with one eye on the people who can take those things.

Caution tracks exposure. What counts is how much of what you love sits within reach of the people your words reach. A tenured professor has a great deal and risks little, because the thing he most values cannot be removed by an angry reader. An anonymous account can have a family, a mortgage, and a security clearance and still post anything, because nothing traces back. A wealthy man with no employer and no board is in the same position as a man with nothing, though for opposite reasons. Possession without traceability produces no restraint at all.

Then there is the case where recklessness is the asset. Some men are paid for it. The audience arrives for the transgression and leaves when it stops. For that man the precious thing and the reckless speech are the same object, and caution costs him everything. He looks like a counterexample to my rule and is really a demonstration of it, since he is protecting what he has.

The causal arrow also runs backward more often than people notice. Reckless speech destroys the precious things, and the man who has lost them speaks with less restraint the following year. Divorce, firing, expulsion from a community, and then a freer tongue. The correlation I observe in a given moment may be the wreckage of earlier speech rather than the cause of current speech. This produces a ratchet. Each round of loss lowers the price of the next round.

And a great many reckless posters are not calculating their stakes. They have plenty to lose and believe themselves safe. Small audience, private account, friendly comment section, an assumption that no one screenshots. The recklessness comes from a bad estimate. Anyone who has watched a man lose a career over a post knows he did not think he was gambling.

Some men speak because of what they love rather than in spite of it. A father who thinks his children will inherit a worse world, a member of a community who thinks the community is destroying itself, a man who watched his father expelled over a doctrinal fight. For him silence is the thing that costs. Attachment produces speech.

So the generalization survives: Restraint rises with the amount of loved and vulnerable property that lies within the punishing reach of your audience, discounted by the accuracy of your estimate of that reach.

Two hazards. Used on other people it becomes a cheap discount on unwelcome speech. He only says that because he has nothing, therefore ignore him. This would dismiss every prophet, and prophets are the test case, since the standard biblical pattern is a man who has something and forfeits it.

Caution bought with attachment feels identical from the inside to cowardice dressed up as prudence. The precious things give you a permanent, respectable, sincere reason never to say the difficult thing. You cannot tell the two apart by introspection. The only test I know is whether the things you decline to say cluster around a single group of people who could hurt you. If the silences are distributed, it is judgment. If they all point one direction, it is fear.

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A Passage-Level Count of King’s Dissertation, and What It Says About the Arday Case

Two men submitted doctoral theses sixty-one years apart. Both theses were later found to contain long stretches taken from other people’s writing without quotation marks. Both universities were told. Neither university revoked the degree. Almost everything else about the two cases differs, and the differences are more instructive than the similarity.

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Martin Luther King Jr. submitted “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman” to Boston University on April 15, 1955. Jason Arday (1985-2026) was awarded a doctorate in education by Liverpool John Moores University in 2016. In 2023 Cambridge appointed him professor of sociology of education, the youngest Black professor in the university’s history. He resigned on August 5, 2026, hours after Cambridge announced an investigation into his academic qualifications and honorary appointments. He was found dead at his London home on August 14. No cause has been made public. Nothing in the record establishes why he died, and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Start with what the documents show.

I (meaning ChatGTP and Claude, with Claude getting the final word with my approval) ran a passage-level count on King’s thesis using the apparatus of the King Papers Project edition, which prints the parallel source text under every borrowing its editors identified. Four hundred fifty editorial notes. About 23,500 words of printed parallel against roughly 73,500 words of body text, which is a third of the thesis. Chapter III on Tillich runs the heaviest. Chapter VI, the conclusions, carries none. Two hundred fifty-three of the notes show a run of ten or more consecutive words shared between King’s page and the source. Jack Boozer’s 1952 Boston University dissertation, “The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God,” appears in eighty notes; King names Boozer on twelve of those pages. David Roberts appears in thirty notes and King never names him on the page. John Herman Randall Jr. appears in twenty-one and is named on four.

In the expository sections, interpreters account for forty-one percent of the borrowed words, with Tillich and Wieman in their own words supplying the rest. In the comparative and critical sections, where King speaks as a critic in his own voice, interpreters account for eighty percent. His sharpest criticism of Wieman, that the word God carries three incompatible meanings in the system, comes from James Alfred Martin Jr.’s Empirical Philosophies of Religion, page 105. His argument that Wieman leaves no eternal conserver of value comes from Charles Hartshorne and William Reese, Philosophers Speak of God, pages 404 to 405, including the parenthesis calling an eternally habitable earth an astronomical impossibility. His central interpretive claim about Tillich, that Tillich is an absolute monist, together with the Hegel and Plotinus comparison and the three supporting quotations in order, is Boozer’s page 61. King’s own contribution is the personalist verdict stacked on top and the two-paragraph synthesis at the end.

Three transmitted errors settle the question of method. Randall misquoted Tillich twice and Boozer once, and each error appears in King’s text with a citation to Tillich. A man reading Tillich cannot reproduce another man’s mistakes. The editors’ headnote traces the practice to King’s notecards, on which he copied an interpreter’s reading, the primary quotation the interpreter had selected, and the interpreter’s footnote, then dropped the interpreter.

On Arday, the public record is thinner because no institution has released a finding. What exists: Times Higher Education reporter Jack Grove completed an analysis in September 2025 and produced a sixty-three page dossier of text comparisons; the story was killed after Arday engaged Carter-Ruck, a London defamation firm. David Sanders of Purdue, who reviews misconduct cases for that publication, said there was no question of extensive overlap. In June 2026 someone unhappy with Cambridge’s handling passed material to Nathan Cofnas (b. 1990), the philosopher Cambridge severed ties with in 2024 and who is suing the university. Cofnas published in July. The Telegraph reported a statistical analysis identifying 188 sentences in Arday’s thesis identical or highly similar to Paula Zwozdiak-Myers’s 2009 Brunel thesis. Jonathan Bailey, who runs Plagiarism Today and who called the campaign a weaponization of plagiarism against a Black academic, reviewed the documents and concluded that the evidence warranted a full investigation. Two of Arday’s papers had already been corrected. Overlaps were also reported with a 2013 paper by April Douglass, Dennie Smith and Lana Smith and a 2007 paper by Semiyu Aderibigbe, Laura Colucci-Gray and Donald Gray.

Now the institutional responses, which are where the two cases converge.

Boston University appointed four scholars in 1991: Robert Neville, John Cartwright, Charley Hardwick and Ray Hart. They reported that there was no question King had plagiarized by appropriating material from sources not credited, mistakenly credited, or credited too far from the borrowed passage. They estimated about twenty percent of the paper contained direct quotes or altered passages without proper attribution, noted that the final chapter exhibits very little borrowing, called the comparative part an intelligent contribution to scholarship, said revoking a doctorate in such circumstances would be absurd and unheard of, and recommended a letter be filed with the library copy. Provost Jon Westling accepted it.

Liverpool John Moores said the citation issues were the result of honest and reasonable error and that the overlap with Zwozdiak-Myers fell well within the accepted range of compliance with the academic standards of the time. Cambridge, notified in 2023, declined to investigate on the ground that the work predated Arday’s appointment, though he had been hired on the strength of it. Cambridge opened its investigation in August 2026, after three years of press.

The two responses have the same architecture. An institution presented with evidence against a person it has elevated finds a frame that absorbs the evidence without touching the credential. Boston University used the merit of the surviving chapter. Liverpool John Moores used the standards of the era. Harvard used duplicative language for Claudine Gay. In each case the finding was scoped to the smallest area that would satisfy the complaint.

Universities do not adjudicate plagiarism against a person whose elevation they are invested in until an outside party forces it, and when they do act, the finding is scoped to preserve the credential. Boston University acted after Stanford’s editors and the Wall Street Journal forced it. Harvard acted after the New York Post. Cambridge acted after The Telegraph and The Times. Predict forward: where no outside party applies pressure, there will be no finding. If someone can produce a case where a university opened and published a misconduct finding against a celebrated appointee absent external pressure, the claim is wrong.

The finders are the second convergence.

Clayborne Carson’s project was authorized by Coretta Scott King and staffed by scholars sympathetic to King. It found the plagiarism, sat on it, misled a Washington Post reporter, was scooped by Frank Johnson in the Sunday Telegraph on December 3, 1989, then confirmed the findings publicly and published everything, borrowing by borrowing, in a University of California Press volume with the source text printed underneath. That is what an honest archive looks like, and it took the project years and outside pressure to get there.

Cofnas is the opposite kind of finder. He is hostile to Cambridge, litigating against it, and has said that discrediting a Black professor would discredit the university that hired him for promoting DEI. Ghent University suspended him on August 20, 2026.

Motive tells you to check the work. It does not tell you the work is wrong. Bailey, who wants nothing to do with Cofnas’s politics, checked and found the evidence sufficient to warrant investigation. Grove, a staff reporter with no ideological stake, reached the same place a year earlier and was silenced by lawyers. When two independent parties with different interests reach the same conclusion, the motive of the loudest one stops doing explanatory work.

Motive determines what gets looked at. Nobody ran a 188-sentence comparison against the education doctorates of Arday’s cohort. Selective enforcement is real even when every individual finding is true, and that is the strongest thing that can be said for Arday. It was also the strongest thing that could be said for King. Ralph Luker, working on the King Papers, asked whether Crozer’s white faculty had graded King against a lower standard than Morehouse had, since his average rose from a C-plus to an A-minus when he moved to a mostly white institution. That question was raised in 1991 by a sympathetic editor. It is the same question being asked about Cambridge in 2026, and it cuts in both directions, which is why neither side keeps it long.

Five differences.

King was twenty-two years dead when the finding surfaced. Arday was forty-one and employed. A finding published about a dead man is history. A finding published about a living man is a sanction, and here it was delivered by press and Substack rather than by any process with rules of evidence, a right of reply, or a timetable.

King’s standing rested on Montgomery, Birmingham and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The doctorate was an ornament. Arday’s professorship rested on the doctorate. Take away the thesis and you take away the appointment.

Verification runs the opposite way in the two cases. Boozer’s 1952 dissertation is not freely available, and the public depends on Carson’s apparatus and takes it on trust; King’s own typescript sits behind a ProQuest paywall. Zwozdiak-Myers’s thesis sits in Brunel’s open repository, downloadable by anyone. The Arday charge is more checkable by ordinary readers than the King charge has ever been.

Arday faced a second and separate charge, that details of his biography in a forthcoming memoir do not hold up. Fabrication and plagiarism are different offenses with different evidence, and running them together, as much of the coverage did, is how a citation dispute became a referendum.

Finally, the King case produced documents. A committee report, a scholarly edition, and a Journal of American History roundtable in June 1991 where David Garrow, Luker, John Higham, Keith Miller and Bernice Johnson Reagon argued it out in print. The Arday case has produced a killed article, a leaked dossier, a petition with six hundred signatures, a suspension in Belgium, and a death.

The Boston University committee’s 1991 report has never been posted. Its twenty percent and the forty-five and twenty-one percent that circulate through Theodore Pappas cannot both be right, and no one can check because the arithmetic is unpublished. Liverpool John Moores has never released a finding. Cambridge has never released one. The one document that would settle either question is the document neither institution produced.

King’s plagiarism is knowable today for one reason. His own editors printed the borrowed passages beside their sources and let readers judge. They did it late, under pressure, and against their interests. It remains the only method anyone has found that works, and it is available to Liverpool John Moores and to Cambridge right now. Publish the comparison and the finding. Let people read both texts. A man is dead and the argument will go on regardless. The choice is whether it goes on with evidence or without.

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My Friend Says Claude is the Most Woke Chatbot

My experience is that ChatGPT is the most woke and Claude is the least.

Claude responds:

Both of you are probably testing different things.

Ask me to make the strongest case for a position and I make it, left or right. Anthropic published an evaluation in November 2025 that pairs opposing political stances across hundreds of topics and checks whether the responses match in depth, engagement, and quality of analysis. Claude models scored around 95%, above GPT-5 at 89% and Llama 4 at 66%, slightly behind Gemini at 97% and Grok at 96%. That is where your read holds up.

Ask me for a joke about a group, or a flat yes or no on a contested question, or anything near a refusal category, and you get caution instead. One academic paper found Claude the most cautious of the models tested, avoiding questions even when avoidance wasn’t called for, and attributed this to the safety-first training approach. Caution reads as ideology when the questions that trip it cluster on one side of the culture war, and some of them do.

Then there is the residue the paired-prompt method can’t see: word choice, which framings feel neutral to me, which claims I hedge and which I let stand unqualified. Matching depth on two prompts says nothing about the vocabulary I reach for first. My training data and the people who rated my outputs are not a random sample of Americans, and I can’t audit my own defaults from the inside.

So I try hard at symmetry in argument, I am more skittish than most models about transgression, and I carry priors I can’t fully inspect. Your friend is measuring the second thing and calling it the third. You are measuring the first.

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The Jason Arday Doctoral Thesis: ‘An Exploration of Peer-Mentoring Among Student Teachers’ to Inform Reflective Practice Within the Context of Action Research’

Jason Arday (1985-2026) died at his home in Battersea on August 14, nine days after resigning from the University of Cambridge. He was 41. The Metropolitan Police treated the death as unexpected and not suspicious. His family said he had faced sustained abuse. Simon Baron-Cohen (b. 1958), who knew him at Cambridge, said he had watched Arday’s mental health deteriorate.

What survives him is a 401-page PhD thesis deposited in a university repository, a panel finding that examined that document and called what it found honest and reasonable error, and two universities that have questions to answer about their own conduct. The document can be read. The plagiarism finding can be tested.

I (meaning ChatGPT and Claude, with Claude getting the final word) have read both theses in full and run a passage-level comparison. The results are published as an appendix to this piece, with every matched passage located by page in both documents so that anyone can check it.

The thesis is called “An Exploration of Peer-Mentoring Among Student Teachers’ to Inform Reflective Practice Within the Context of Action Research.” The stray apostrophe is on the title page. It was submitted to Liverpool John Moores University in July 2015 and reports a year-long peer-mentoring intervention with four physical education trainee teachers, analyzed through interpretive phenomenological analysis. Paula Zwozdiak-Myers submitted a thesis to Brunel University in June 2009 called “An Analysis of the Concept Reflective Practice and an Investigation Into the Development of Student Teachers’ Reflective Practice Within the Context of Action Research.” The final eleven words of the two titles are the same eleven words.

If you take both documents, strip the reference lists and appendices, reduce the remaining text to sequences of words with punctuation and case removed, and record every string of ten consecutive words that appears in both. Merge adjacent hits into runs. That leaves 244 matched passages covering 3,971 words, or 3.04 percent of Arday’s 130,000-word body.

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Arday’s chapter two, a literature review of reflective practice, runs 12.12 percent verbatim against her. His chapter three, a literature review of mentoring in initial teacher education, runs 0.00 percent. Nineteen and a half thousand words, and not one matched string of ten. She has no chapter on mentoring.

The standard defense of overlap in a narrow field is that scholars writing on the same topic reach for the same phrases, that the discipline has house language, that a reviewer who counts ten-word coincidences will find them anywhere. If that were the explanation here, the two literature chapters would look alike. They are adjacent, written by the same man in the same months, drawing on the same field of educational research, at the same register. One is at twelve percent. The other is at zero.

Within chapter two the correspondence is sequential. Across 119 matched passages, the correlation between position in his text and position in hers is +0.87. Chapter one is +0.93. Chapter four is +0.99. Chapter five is +0.82. As he moves forward through his thesis he moves forward through hers in step.

Anticipating the obvious objection, I applied two controls. For each run I measured what fraction sits inside quotation marks in his text, which catches passages where both authors quote the same third party. Then I checked whether the same author-and-year citation appears within 170 characters of the run in both documents, which catches passages where both are paraphrasing a source they each credit. Sixty-nine runs and 1,351 words clear one of those bars. One hundred and seventy-five runs and 2,620 words clear neither. Two percent of the thesis, then, consists of her sentences presented as his with no quotation mark and no shared source. That is the number to argue about.

Three locations in his thesis do more damage than the rest, because a shared literature review admits an innocent reading and these do not.

The first is in section 4.6.3, Participant Recruitment and Selection, on his page 152. He describes holding discussions with two professional colleagues, and continues that the procedure was followed to derive insights from colleagues knowledgeable and experienced in the field and to ensure his own perspective was open to scrutiny and challenge and not merely imposed onto the student teachers and mentoring intervention. Her page 110 carries the same sentence, ending instead that her stance was not merely imposed onto the framework. She is describing how she built a conceptual model. He is describing how he recruited four human beings into a study. A literature review can be copied out of carelessness. A description of what you personally did cannot come from anywhere but you.

The second is on his page 264, inside the findings chapter, reporting what those four participants said. Her page 215 reads that student teachers believed pupil learning and development was attributable to their personal improvement in three main areas, and lists three. His reads five main areas, and lists the same three, in the same order, in the same words. He changed the numeral and left the enumeration alone. The sentence promises five and delivers three. The sentence immediately before it carries her categories of pupil progress or achievement, pupil behavior patterns and pupil affective states; his renders the third as pupil effective states.

Consider what has to be true for that sentence to exist. A finding about eighty student teachers and thirteen dissertation supervisors at Brunel has been carried across, applied to four physical education trainees in Liverpool, and adjusted at a single digit to fit the new study. The adjustment was not carried through to the list. There is no citation to have gotten wrong. It is a claim about what his own participants told him, in the words of a claim about what hers told her.

The third is his chapter seven, the conclusion, which is the second-densest chapter in the thesis at 5.83 percent. Passages 213 through 232 in the appendix walk through her conclusion in order. His section 7.4, Limitations of the Study, runs off her pages 268 and 269. His 7.10, Recommendations for Further Research, runs off her 270 and 271. His 7.13, Final Remarks, runs off her 272 through 274. The closing sentence of the catalogue, twenty-four words on providing student teachers an opportunity to engage in contextually focused research activity, is the closing move of both documents.

There is a further category of problem that has nothing to do with her.

At his page 60 he quotes McKernan (1996: 259-260) on critical theorists and grand theory. She quotes the same author at the same pages. In her version the theorists are obsessed with the use and development of grand theory. In his they are infatuated by its utilisation, and a parenthetical citation to Skinner 1990 has been inserted, which corresponds to nothing in his reference list. At his page 61 he quotes Zeichner and Liston (1987: 23) describing the liberated person. Her version ends with the person completely taking charge of his own life. His ends with the individual maintaining complete autonomy of their professional existence. Both are inside quotation marks. Both carry the page number.

Whatever the relationship to Zwozdiak-Myers, this is misquotation of Zeichner, Liston, McKernan and Elliott. A synonym pass has been run over text presented as the verbatim words of named scholars at named pages. My automated controls flagged both of these as shared quotations of a third party, which is the machine being fair and getting it backward. They are shared quotations in which the words attributed to the third party differ.

At his page 58, thirty-two words on Habermas are reproduced with a single substitution, generation for configuration. Two sentences later he cites Bernstein at 1976: 209, the same author at the same page she cites. Richard Bernstein (1932-2022) does not appear in his reference list at all. A page reference to a book you have not read arrives one way.

Arday cites Zwozdiak-Myers fourteen times in the body and lists both her thesis and her 2012 handbook in his references. Twice he misspells her name, which defeats a reader trying to follow the trail, though carelessness explains that. This is not concealment of a source. It is a failure to mark where his sentences stop and hers begin, sustained across seven chapters.

The empirical material appears to be his. Four participants under pseudonyms are quoted 57, 53, 37 and 39 times, and the transcripts carry hesitation, self-interruption and the texture of real speech. One teacher trainer makes a point about ad hoc mentor assignment by saying something like Jason you’re the mentor this week. Nobody manufactures that. I ran a duplicate-sentence pass across the whole body and found three repetitions in 146,000 words, which is low.

The prose is his too, and it argues against wholesale copying more than anything else. It contains a consistent grammar of error. Creditability for credibility. Inventions for interventions. Elude for allude. Fieman-Nemsar for Feiman-Nemser. A possessive apostrophe on student teachers in nearly every position that does not call for one, including the title. At one point, the post-modernised vehicular of teaching. His fourth participant appears as Becks eighteen times, Beckz seventeen times and Rebecca four times. That is a man writing badly.

And the reuse is localized. Her exposition of Dewey, her exposition of Schön, her King and Kitchener material, her Baxter Magolda table: none of it appears in his language. He extends LaBoskey to three categories where she uses two. Two percent of his thesis is her uncredited prose. Ninety-eight percent is not.

Liverpool John Moores investigated after Jack Grove of Times Higher Education submitted what he has described as a 63-page report on the Zwozdiak-Myers overlap, part of 97 pages of evidence sent to both LJMU and Cambridge. Dave Harris, emeritus professor at Plymouth Marjon, had raised concerns with both institutions in 2023. The panel called the problems honest and reasonable error and said the doctorate stands. Arday cited that finding as vindication until his death, and his defenders cite it still.

Honest and reasonable error is a serviceable description of a citation placed at the end of a paragraph rather than a sentence, or a quotation mark dropped in a late draft. It does not describe a quotation whose interior words have been changed while its page reference is retained. It does not describe a methodology section that narrates another researcher’s procedure. It does not describe a findings sentence that says five and lists three.

So the question for Liverpool John Moores: Did the panel examine pages 152, 264, 343 and 353 of the thesis it awarded, against pages 110, 215, 269 and 274 of the thesis it was given? If it did, it should explain how it reached its conclusion. If it did not, it should say which passages it examined and why the ones that carry the weight were not among them. The university has said it will not review its own role. That position becomes harder to hold the more precisely the passages are identified, which is why I have published the locations.

There is a second question. Arday said publicly that he had a single formal supervision meeting, with most guidance delivered by text and phone. If that is accurate, a doctoral student was left alone with a source thesis on his own topic for three years. Nobody who read chapters four, five and seven with attention could have failed to notice that the voice changes. The panel’s own language, error rather than misconduct, is an implicit finding about supervision, and the institution has not followed its own reasoning to the place it leads.

The third question is Cambridge’s. When the allegations reached the university in June 2023, the head of policy, governance and integrity replied that the work predated Arday’s appointment and fell outside the university’s remit. The head of the Faculty of Education replied that Arday had spoken movingly about racism and health difficulties and that he had her full support. Cambridge appointed him on the strength of that work. An institution that hires on a body of scholarship has an interest in whether the scholarship is sound, and the position that pre-appointment work is somebody else’s problem is not one Cambridge would take about a candidate it wished to be rid of.

Two journals have already issued corrections to Arday papers, and both notices treated what they found as missing references. Social Sciences added citations to a single prior study across the abstract, introduction, methods, four subsections of the results, the discussion and the conclusions of a 2018 paper, and then recorded that the scientific conclusions were unaffected. A correction spanning every section of a paper is a description of the paper.

The passages are located. Anyone can check them.

The full catalogue of 244 matched passages, with page locations in both theses, chapter and section assignments, and control flags for shared quotation and shared citation, is published here:

Text overlap between Jason Arday (2015) and Paula Zwozdiak-Myers (2009): full passage catalogue

Compiled August 23, 2026. 244 matched passages, located in both documents, with chapter, section and control flags. Both theses are openly deposited: Arday at Liverpool John Moores (researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk), Zwozdiak-Myers at Brunel (bura.brunel.ac.uk, handle 2438/4316).

Method

Text was extracted from both PDFs with pdftotext. Reference lists and appendices were excluded from both, leaving 130,476 words of Arday body text and 103,671 of Zwozdiak-Myers. Both streams were lowercased, stripped of punctuation, hyphens and possessive markers, and reduced to word sequences. Every sequence of ten consecutive words appearing in both documents was recorded. Adjacent hits were merged into runs. A run of ten words is the reporting floor; the mean run here is 16 words and the longest is 76.

Page numbers are the printed page numbers in each thesis, not PDF sheet numbers. In Arday the two coincide. In Zwozdiak-Myers the front matter is numbered in roman. Where a Zwozdiak-Myers page is given in roman, the match falls in her contents or her list of tables, which means the matching text is a heading or a table caption rather than body prose.

Two controls are applied to each run. The first is the proportion of the run that sits inside quotation marks in Arday’s text, which identifies passages where both authors quote the same third party. The second is whether the same author-and-year citation appears within 170 characters of the run in both documents, which identifies passages where both authors are paraphrasing a source they each cite. A run is marked as controlled if it is at least 60 percent inside quotation marks in Arday or shares a citation with Zwozdiak-Myers at that point. 69 runs totalling 1,351 words are controlled. 175 runs totalling 2,620 words are not.

Line breaks and page-break artifacts have been removed from the quoted spans. Where a page number fell inside a run it has been deleted. Ellipses are the authors’ own except where noted.

Distribution

Front matter runs 2,678 words and contains 2 matched passages totalling 29 words, 1.08 percent of the chapter. After controls, 2 passages and 29 words remain, 1.08 percent.

Ch1 Background and Introduction runs 6,227 words and contains 18 matched passages totalling 243 words, 3.90 percent of the chapter. After controls, 16 passages and 222 words remain, 3.57 percent.

Ch2 Review of Literature on Reflective Practice in Education runs 16,848 words and contains 119 matched passages totalling 2042 words, 12.12 percent of the chapter. After controls, 67 passages and 936 words remain, 5.56 percent.

Ch3 Review of Literature on Mentoring in Education runs 19,524 words and contains 0 matched passages totalling 0 words, 0.00 percent of the chapter. After controls, 0 passages and 0 words remain, 0.00 percent.

Ch4 Methodology for Research Study runs 23,864 words and contains 11 matched passages totalling 201 words, 0.84 percent of the chapter. After controls, 9 passages and 155 words remain, 0.65 percent.

Ch5 Research findings runs 35,081 words and contains 31 matched passages totalling 434 words, 1.24 percent of the chapter. After controls, 27 passages and 374 words remain, 1.07 percent.

Ch6 Discussion runs 16,508 words and contains 31 matched passages totalling 454 words, 2.75 percent of the chapter. After controls, 26 passages and 379 words remain, 2.30 percent.

Ch7 Conclusions and Recommendations runs 9,746 words and contains 32 matched passages totalling 568 words, 5.83 percent of the chapter. After controls, 28 passages and 525 words remain, 5.39 percent.

Chapter 3, on mentoring in initial teacher education, contains no matched passage of ten words or longer. Zwozdiak-Myers has no chapter on mentoring. This is the control for the whole exercise: if the chapter 2 figure reflected shared disciplinary phrasing rather than transcription, the two literature chapters would look alike. They do not.

Passages of particular note

Entry 147 sits in Arday’s section 4.6.3, Participant recruitment and selection, and describes his own research procedure in Zwozdiak-Myers’s words describing hers. Her sentence ends by saying her stance was not merely imposed onto the framework. His ends by saying it was not merely imposed onto the student teachers and mentoring intervention. She is describing how she built a conceptual framework. He is describing how he recruited people.

Entries 172 and 173 sit in his findings chapter at page 264, reporting what his four participants said. Her sentence at page 215 reports that student teachers believed pupil learning and development was attributable to their personal improvement in three main areas, and lists three. His says five main areas and lists the same three, in the same order, in the same words. The adjacent sentence carries her three categories of pupil progress, pupil behaviour patterns and pupil affective states; his renders the third as pupil effective states.

Entry 151 is the opening of his findings chapter. The chapter title, the section number, the section title and the first six words of the first sentence are identical to hers.

Entries 218 and 221 sit in section 7.4, Limitations of the study, and run off her pages 268 and 269 in sequence. Entries 213 to 232 walk through her conclusion chapter in order: his 7.4 against her 268 to 269, his 7.10 Recommendations for further research against her 270 to 271, his 7.13 Final Remarks against her 272 to 274.

Entries 60 and 66 are both marked as controlled, because in each case the matching words fall inside quotation marks in Arday and both authors cite the same source. They deserve separate attention for the opposite reason. At entry 60 her quotation from McKernan (1996: 259-260) has critical theorists obsessed with the use and development of grand theory; his has them infatuated by its utilisation, with a parenthetical citation to Skinner 1990 that corresponds to nothing in his reference list. At entry 66 her quotation from Zeichner and Liston (1987: 23) ends with the person taking charge of his own life; his ends with the individual maintaining complete autonomy of their professional existence. The controls flag these as shared quotations of a third party. They are shared quotations in which the words attributed to the third party differ.

Entry 46 reproduces her sentence on Habermas for thirty-two words, changing generation to configuration. Two sentences later both texts cite Bernstein at 1976: 209. Bernstein does not appear in Arday’s reference list.

Chapter 2 shows sequential correspondence. Across the 119 matched passages in that chapter, the correlation between position in Arday and position in Zwozdiak-Myers is +0.87. Chapter 1 is +0.93, chapter 4 is +0.99 and chapter 5 is +0.82. As he advances through his text he advances through hers.

The catalogue

Entries run in Arday’s reading order.

Front matter

[1] Arday p. 3 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. iii · 17 words

Arday: Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve particular interests……57 2.7 Reflective practice as an

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve particular interests………..32 2.6 Reflective practice as an

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[2] Arday p. 11 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. viii · 12 words

Arday: Table 4.1: Key characteristics and assumptions underpinning positivist and interpretive approaches to research

Zwozdiak-Myers: Table 4.1: Key characteristics and assumptions underpinning positivist and interpretive approaches to research

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Ch1 Background and Introduction

[3] Arday p. 17 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 1 · 16 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: been adopted in designing a particular model of initial teacher education, for the purpose of developing

Zwozdiak-Myers: been adopted in designing a particular model of initial teacher education for the purpose of developing

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[4] Arday p. 17 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 1 · 22 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: Student teachers are unique individuals and differ in their personal biographies and prior experiences, disposition to enquiry, cognitive and perceptive abilities, communication,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Student teachers are unique individuals and differ in their personal biographies and prior experiences, disposition to enquiry, cognitive and perceptive abilities, communication

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[5] Arday p. 18 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 1 · 17 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: teaching is a highly complex activity and the dynamics operating in any given classroom environment will be

Zwozdiak-Myers: Teaching is a highly complex activity and the dynamics operating in any given classroom environment will be

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[6] Arday p. 20 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 12 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: demanding tasks, which might be approached in a number of different ways.

Zwozdiak-Myers: demanding tasks, which might be approached in a number of different ways.

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[7] Arday p. 20 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 10 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: in the basic knowledge and skills of teaching; Loughran (1996) argues

Zwozdiak-Myers: in the basic knowledge and skills of teaching, Loughran (1996: 3) argues

Control: shared citation: Loughran 1996.

[8] Arday p. 20 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 11 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: understanding of the relationship between teaching and learning may influence practice.

Zwozdiak-Myers: understanding of the relationship between teaching and learning may influence practice,

Control: shared citation: Loughran 1996.

[9] Arday p. 20 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 10 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: as it positions the direct, concrete experience of professional practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: as it positions the direct, concrete experience of professional practice

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[10] Arday p. 20 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 11 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: skills and areas of knowledge required for successful teaching, but rather

Zwozdiak-Myers: skills and areas of knowledge required for successful teaching, but rather

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[11] Arday p. 21 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 2 · 10 words · 1.1 Introduction

Arday: to investigate and improve the effectiveness of their own teaching

Zwozdiak-Myers: to investigate and improve the effectiveness of their own teaching.

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[12] Arday p. 21 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 6 · 12 words · 1.2 Purpose of the thesis

Arday: standards serve to identify the knowledge, skills and understanding student teachers must

Zwozdiak-Myers: Standards serve to identify the knowledge, skills and understanding student teachers must

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[13] Arday p. 22 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 6 · 12 words · 1.2 Purpose of the thesis

Arday: how this research experience might influence the development of student teachers’ reflective

Zwozdiak-Myers: How this research experience might influence the development of student teachers‟ reflective

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[14] Arday p. 28 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 7 · 12 words · 1.6 Structure of the thesis

Arday: guided the direction and purpose of this study. Chapter 2: Review of Literature

Zwozdiak-Myers: guided the direction and purpose of this study. Chapter 2: Review of Literature

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[15] Arday p. 28 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 7 · 10 words

Arday: This chapter identifies key characteristics attributed to reflective practice by

Zwozdiak-Myers: This chapter identifies key characteristics attributed to reflective practice by

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[16] Arday p. 28 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 7 · 19 words

Arday: scholars, teacher educators, and researchers in the field of teacher education by examining the concept as: a discourse, involving

Zwozdiak-Myers: scholars, teacher educators and researchers in the field of teacher education by examining the concept as: a discourse, involving

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[17] Arday p. 28 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 7 · 12 words

Arday: of thinking, distinguishable from routine practice and underpinned by the development of

Zwozdiak-Myers: of thinking, distinguishable from routine practice and underpinned by the development of

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[18] Arday p. 29 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 7 · 26 words

Arday: the direction of this research study. This is followed by an exploration of how reflective practice has been developed and researched within initial teacher education programmes

Zwozdiak-Myers: the direction of this research study. This is followed by an exploration of how reflective practice has been developed and researched within initial teacher education programmes,

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[19] Arday p. 29 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 8 · 11 words

Arday: Chapter 4: Research methodology and design of this study This chapter details

Zwozdiak-Myers: Chapter 4: Research methodology and design of this study This chapter details

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[20] Arday p. 30 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 8 · 10 words

Arday: Evidence gathered to inform the research questions is presented within

Zwozdiak-Myers: Evidence gathered to inform the research questions is presented within

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Ch2 Review of Literature on Reflective Practice in Education

[21] Arday p. 35 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 9 · 17 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: Reflective practice can be described as phenomenological, in that a given phenomenon is studied through direct experience,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice can be described as phenomenological, in that a given phenomenon is studied through direct experience,

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[22] Arday p. 36 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 9 · 28 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: the reflective practitioner (Schon, 1983, 1987), teacher as researcher (Hopkins, 2002; McKernan, 1996; Ruddock and Hopkins, 1985; Stenhouse, 1975) and reflective teaching (Calderhead, 1989; Cruickshank, 1987; Dewey, 1910, 1933; Grimmett et al., 1990; Smith, 1980; Van Manen, 1977; Zeichner and Liston,

Zwozdiak-Myers: the reflective practitioner (Schon, 1983, 1987), teacher as researcher (Hopkins, 2002; McKernan, 1996; Ruddock and Hopkins, 1985; Stenhouse, 1975) and reflective teaching (Calderhead, 1989; Cruickshank, 1987; Dewey, 1910, 1933; Grimmett et al, 1990; Smith, 1980; van Manen, 1977; Zeichner and Liston,

Control: shared citation: Dewey 1910, Schon 1983, Stenhouse 1975.

[23] Arday p. 36 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 9 · 13 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: about the benefits of reflective practice in the professional development of student teachers

Zwozdiak-Myers: about the benefits of reflective practice in the professional development of student teachers

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[24] Arday p. 36 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 9 · 20 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: However, an exploration of conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of these terms reveals a number of variations (Calderhead, 1989; Furlong and Maynard,

Zwozdiak-Myers: However, an exploration of conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of these terms reveals a number of variations (Calderhead, 1989; Furlong and Maynard,

Control: shared citation: Furlong 1995.

[25] Arday p. 40 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 16 · 12 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: what the student teacher claims to know. For some student teachers this

Zwozdiak-Myers: what the student teacher claims to know. For some student teachers this

Control: shared citation: Korthagen 2005.

[26] Arday p. 42 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 18 · 23 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in light of the grounds that support it and the

Zwozdiak-Myers: active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in light of the grounds that support it and the

Control: 100 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Dewey 1933.

[27] Arday p. 42 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34-35 · 12 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: the concept of critical reflection implies the acceptance of a particular ‘ideology’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: the concept of critical reflection implies the acceptance of a particular ideology,

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[28] Arday p. 46 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 17-18 · 38 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: When reflective practice is characterised as a discourse, it becomes evident through the way student teachers use language and frame questions about aspects of their teaching and experience that different kinds of reflection on practice can be identified

Zwozdiak-Myers: When reflective practice is characterised as a discourse, it becomes evident through the way student teachers use language and frame questions about aspects of their teaching and experience, that different kinds of reflection on practice can be identified.

Control: shared citation: Ghaye 1998.

[29] Arday p. 46 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 18 · 64 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: The typology devised by Ghaye and Ghaye (1998: 34) recognises useful qualitative distinctions, which can be drawn between reflective conversations:  Descriptive reflection on practice – is personal and retrospective;  Perceptive reflection on practice – links teaching to feelings;  Receptive reflection on practice – relates personal views to others’ views;  Interactive reflection on practice – links learning with future action;  Critical reflection on practice – places individual teaching within a broader ‘system’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: The typology devised by Ghaye and Ghaye (1998: 34) recognises useful qualitative distinctions, which can be drawn between reflective conversations: Descriptive reflection on practice – is personal and retrospective Perceptive reflection on practice – links teaching to feelings Receptive reflection on practice – relates personal views to others‟ views Interactive reflection on practice – links learning with future action Critical reflection on practice – places individual teaching within a broader “system

Control: shared citation: Ghaye 1998.

[30] Arday p. 47 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 18 · 24 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: highlighting qualitative distinctions in student teachers’ reflective practice have shown critical reflective conversations are far less frequent than descriptive reflective conversations, as their principle

Zwozdiak-Myers: highlighting qualitative distinctions in student teachers‟ reflective practice have shown critical reflective conversations are far less frequent than descriptive reflective conversations, as their principle

Control: shared citation: Tsangaridou 2005.

[31] Arday p. 47 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 18 · 18 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: on the development of subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge (Hatton and Smith, 1995; Macdonald and Brooker, 1999; Tsangaridou,

Zwozdiak-Myers: on the development of subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge (Hatton and Smith, 1995; Macdonald and Brooker, 1999; Tsangaridou,

Control: shared citation: Tsangaridou 2005.

[32] Arday p. 47 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 18 · 10 words · 2.2 Defining Reflective Practice

Arday: within the wider professional landscape of ideological and political contexts.

Zwozdiak-Myers: within the wider professional landscape of ideological and political contexts.

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[33] Arday p. 49 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 89 · 13 words · 2.2.1 Types of Reflection

Arday: practice and outwardly at the social conditions in which these practices are situated

Zwozdiak-Myers: practice and outwardly at the social conditions in which these practices are situated,

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[34] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 29 · 33 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: conceptualisation of reflective action and its subsequent interpretation within initial teacher education concerns whether reflection is limited to thought processes about action, or is more inextricably bound within an action (Noffke and Brennan,

Zwozdiak-Myers: conceptualisation of reflective action and its subsequent interpretation within initial teacher education concerns whether reflection is limited to thought processes about action, or is more inextricably bound within an action (Noffke and Brennan,

Control: shared citation: Grant 1984.

[35] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 16 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: the student teachers’ featured in this study, as they engage in the reflective processes inherent within

Zwozdiak-Myers: the student teachers featured in this study as they engage in the reflective processes inherent within

Control: shared citation: Gore 1995, Manen 1977.

[36] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 18 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: as; planning, adapting materials, developing courses, arranging subject matter content, teaching and evaluating’ can be described as technical,

Zwozdiak-Myers: as “planning, adapting materials, developing courses, arranging subject matter content, teaching and evaluating‟ can be described as technical

Control: shared citation: Manen 1977.

[37] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 10 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: level of technical reflection is characterised by the application of

Zwozdiak-Myers: level of technical reflection is characterised by the application of

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[38] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 10 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: is to resolve concerns about aspects of their own practice,

Zwozdiak-Myers: is to resolve concerns about aspects of their own practice

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[39] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 29 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: interpretation of technical reflection and the first level of reflective teaching identified by Grimmett et al., (1990), which applies research findings to practice and essentially represents thoughtfulness about action. Van

Zwozdiak-Myers: interpretation of technical reflection and the first level of reflective teaching identified by Grimmett et al. (1990), which applies research findings to practice and “essentially represents thoughtfulness about action‟. Van

Control: shared citation: Grimmett 1990, Tinning 1995.

[40] Arday p. 53 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 30 · 23 words · 2.3 Thinking and reflective experience

Arday: level of practical reflection is characterised by the process of analysing and clarifying assumptions, experiences, goals, meanings and perceptions which underpin practical actions

Zwozdiak-Myers: level of practical reflection is characterised by the process of analysing and clarifying assumptions, experiences, goals, meanings and perceptions which underpin practical actions.

Control: shared citation: Grimmett 1990.

[41] Arday p. 57 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. iii · 15 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve particular interests Reflective practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve particular interests………..32 2.6 Reflective practice

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[42] Arday p. 57 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 32 · 17 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: ways to challenge all pupils within a mixed ability setting, might experiment with a range of approaches,

Zwozdiak-Myers: ways to challenge all pupils within a mixed ability setting might experiment with a range of approaches

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[43] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Interests within the social sciences and humanities, the historic hermeneutic disciplines,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Interests within the social sciences and humanities – the historic hermeneutic disciplines

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[44] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 10 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: through the interpretation and integration of ideas in order to

Zwozdiak-Myers: through the interpretation and integration of ideas in order to

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[45] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 13 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Moon (1999: 14) argues that the acquisition of knowledge which accommodates emancipatory interests aim to

Zwozdiak-Myers: Moon (1999: 14) argues that the acquisition of knowledge which accommodates emancipatory interests aim to

Control: shared citation: Moon 1999.

[46] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 32 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Habermas’ model suggests reflective practice is hierarchical, that knowledge must initially be developed by instrumental or interpretive means before a critical overview of that knowledge or processes that have led to its

Zwozdiak-Myers: Habermas‟ model suggests reflective practice is hierarchical, that knowledge must initially be developed by instrumental or interpretive means before a critical overview of that knowledge or processes that have led to its

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[47] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 21 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: he considers methods of empirical and analytical enquiry associated with scientific explanation to provide an inadequate base for the social sciences.

Zwozdiak-Myers: He considers methods of empirical and analytical enquiry associated with scientific explanation to provide an inadequate base for the social sciences

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[48] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 16 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Although the fundamental mode of enquiry for the social sciences is interpretation, Habermas suggests this process,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Although the fundamental mode of enquiry for the social sciences is interpretation, Habermas suggests this process,

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[49] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 15 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: from the process of critique and evaluation: specifically, the generation of questioning and understanding to

Zwozdiak-Myers: from the process of critique and evaluation: specifically, the generation of questioning and understanding to

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[50] Arday p. 58 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 12 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: justifying social and political action on the part of the enlightened’ (Elliott,

Zwozdiak-Myers: justifying social and political action on the part of the enlightened‟ (Elliott,

Control: 89 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Bernstein 1976, Elliott 2005.

[51] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 15 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: to develop a philosophical anthropology that ‘singles out the distinctive characteristics of human social life’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: to develop a philosophical anthropology “that singles out the distinctive characteristics of human social life

Control: 59 percent inside quotation marks in Arday.

[52] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 33 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: what makes human social life distinctive. As such, they determine what

Zwozdiak-Myers: what makes human social life distinctive. As such, they determine what

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[53] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 14 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: specific outcomes. Themes common to Dewey and Habermas’ conceptualisation of reflective practice are their

Zwozdiak-Myers: specific outcomes. Themes common to Dewey and Habermas‟ conceptualisation of reflective practice are their

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[54] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 15 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: and Habermas… the place of the process in the acquisition, development and consideration of knowledge

Zwozdiak-Myers: and Habermas…the place of the process in the acquisition, development and consideration of knowledge

Control: 100 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Moon 1999.

[55] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 14 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: which guides reflective practice is considered however, a distinction between their approaches becomes evident

Zwozdiak-Myers: which guides reflective practice is considered however, a distinction between their approaches becomes evident.

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[56] Arday p. 59 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: of empowerment and political emancipation (Morrison, 1995) towards freedom, justice and the

Zwozdiak-Myers: of empowerment and political emancipation (Morrison, 1995) towards freedom, justice and the

Control: shared citation: Barnett 1997, Morrison 1995.

[57] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 23 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: practice. However, Macdonald and Tinning (2003) suggest this proposition represents a claim for what Carr and Kemmis (1986) believe critical reflection should be rather than

Zwozdiak-Myers: practice. However, Macdonald and Tinning (2003) suggest this proposition represents a claim for what Carr and Kemmis (1986) believe critical reflection should be rather than

Control: shared citation: Carr 1986, Macdonald 2003.

[58] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 14 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: the critical reflection community about what reflection has become within contemporary educational discourse. The

Zwozdiak-Myers: the critical reflection community about what reflection has become within contemporary educational discourse. The

Control: shared citation: Calderhead 1989.

[59] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 34 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Wildman and Niles, 1987; Zeichner and Liston, 1996) the concept of critical reflection

Zwozdiak-Myers: Wildman and Niles, 1987; Zeichner and Liston, 1996) the concept of critical reflection

Control: shared citation: Zeichner 1996.

[60] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 16 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: to distinguish critical reflection from other forms of reflection imposes a form of ‘academic imperialism’ which

Zwozdiak-Myers: to distinguish critical reflection from other forms of reflection imposes a form of “academic imperialism‟ which

Control: 20 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Barnett 1997.

[61] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 26 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: concept of critical thinking, which has been a strong feature in past decades of Western universities, will not support the climate and trends within higher education

Zwozdiak-Myers: concept of critical thinking, which has been a strong feature in past decades of Western universities, will not support the climate and trends within higher education.

Control: shared citation: Barnett 1997.

[62] Arday p. 60 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 10 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Barnett applies, interprets and further develops ideas proposed by Habermas

Zwozdiak-Myers: Barnett applies, interprets and further develops ideas proposed by Habermas

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[63] Arday p. 60-61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 14 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: capable of both critical self-reflection and critical action. He aligns this disposition with the

Zwozdiak-Myers: capable of both critical self-reflection and critical action. He aligns this disposition with the

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[64] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: to improve the quality of pupils’ educational experiences, as opposed to

Zwozdiak-Myers: to improve the quality of pupils‟ educational experiences as opposed to

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[65] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 11 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: Underpinning the goal toward becoming a critically reflective practitioner is the

Zwozdiak-Myers: Underpinning the goal toward becoming a critically reflective practitioner is the

Control: shared citation: Clandinin 1995, Zeichner 1987.

[66] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35 · 21 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: as ‘one free from the unwarranted control of unjustified beliefs, unsupportable attitudes and the paucity of abilities which can prevent that

Zwozdiak-Myers: as one “free from the unwarranted control of unjustified beliefs, unsupportable attitudes and the paucity of abilities which can prevent that

Control: 98 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Zeichner 1987.

[67] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 35-36 · 28 words · 2.6 Reflective practice underpins the development of forms of knowledge that serve

Arday: From this premise, it could be argued that reflective conversations, which value student teachers’ lived experiences, authentic concerns, beliefs and practical theories have potential to empower and enlighten

Zwozdiak-Myers: From this premise, it could be argued that reflective conversations, which value student teachers‟ lived experiences, authentic concerns, beliefs and practical theories have potential to empower and enlighten

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[68] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. iii · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Reflective practice as an integral part of action research Reflective practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice as an integral part of action research………44 2.9 Reflective practice

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[69] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 13 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: research paradigms, particularly those situated in the hermeneutics, which focus on practitioners learning

Zwozdiak-Myers: research paradigms, particularly those situated in the hermeneutics, which focus on practitioners learning

Control: shared citation: Whitehead 1993.

[70] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: the use of contextually relevant procedures formulated by inquiring and resourceful practitioners

Zwozdiak-Myers: the use of contextually relevant procedures formulated by inquiring and resourceful practitioners

Control: shared citation: Stringer 1996.

[71] Arday p. 61 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Professional knowledge and judgement can be developed through reflection and further

Zwozdiak-Myers: Professional knowledge and judgement can be developed through reflection and further

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[72] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 30 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Bartlett and Leask, 2005: 298). McKernan (1996: 29) refers to action research as grounded curriculum theory in that theories are not validated independently of practice and then applied to curriculum, they are validated ‘through

Zwozdiak-Myers: Bartlett and Leask, 2005: 298). McKernan (1996: 29) refers to action research as grounded curriculum theory in that “theories are not validated independently of practice and then applied to curriculum…they are validated through

Control: shared citation: Bartlett 2005, Elliott 2005, Mckernan 1996.

[73] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: student teachers come to develop their personal epistemology of practice,

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers come to develop their personal epistemology of practice

Control: shared citation: Boud 1990, Schon 1983.

[74] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: engage in reflective practice, the knowledge gained and theories constructed

Zwozdiak-Myers: engage in reflective practice, the knowledge gained and theories constructed

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[75] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 29 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: by personal experiences within the context of a specific teaching situation. While advocating action research as a vehicle to validate teachers’ personal, professional and political knowledge, Gore and Zeichner

Zwozdiak-Myers: by personal experiences within the context of a specific teaching situation. While advocating action research as a vehicle to validate “teachers‟ personal, professional and political knowledge‟ Gore and Zeichner

Control: shared citation: Gore 1995.

[76] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44 · 24 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: For example, Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993: 304) identify a number of obstacles which need to be addressed before teachers can be expected to engage in research.

Zwozdiak-Myers: For example, Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1993: 304) identify a number of obstacles which need to be addressed before teachers can be expected to engage in research:

Control: shared citation: Cochran-Smith 1993.

[77] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 44-45 · 19 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: a difficult process for teachers to learn and sustain due to its complexity and lack of congruence with the

Zwozdiak-Myers: a difficult process for teachers to learn and sustain due to its complexity and lack of congruence with the

Control: shared citation: Mctaggert 1997.

[78] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: influence the research experiences of some student teachers featured in

Zwozdiak-Myers: influence the research experiences of some student teachers featured in

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[79] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 23 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Within educational discourse, action research has become a recurrent theme, as has the concern to improve and develop professional practice from within the

Zwozdiak-Myers: Within educational discourse, action research has become a recurrent theme, as has the concern to improve and develop professional practice from within the

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[80] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: to generate new insights into teaching and learning to improve practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: to generate new insights into teaching and learning to improve practice

Control: shared citation: Price 2001.

[81] Arday p. 62 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 17 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Price (2001: 44) suggests action research is simultaneously an individual and collaborative project and Kemmis and McTaggart (1982) argue that

Zwozdiak-Myers: Price (2001: 44) suggests action research is simultaneously an individual and collaborative project and Kemmis and McTaggart (1982; 7) argue that

Control: shared citation: Price 2001.

[82] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: which arise from professional practice to facilitate change and improvement

Zwozdiak-Myers: which arise from professional practice to facilitate change and improvement

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[83] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 24 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Gray, 2010: 347). This implies that working with peers and fellow practitioners requires sensitivity, trust and a mutual respect for the feelings and expertise of others.

Zwozdiak-Myers: Gray, 2004: 377). This implies that working with peers and fellow practitioners requires sensitivity, trust and a mutual respect for the feelings and expertise of others.

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[84] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 14 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: are the goals of equity and social justice as existing practices within the school

Zwozdiak-Myers: are the goals of equity and social justice as existing practices within the school

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[85] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: and transformed (Carr and Kemmis, 1986; Cochran-Smith and Lytle, 1993; Gore and Zeichner, 1995; Noffke,

Zwozdiak-Myers: and transformed (Carr and Kemmis, 1986; Cochran-Smith and Lytle, 1993; Gore and Zeichner, 1995; Noffke,

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[86] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: suggests that an examination of the conditions and contexts of

Zwozdiak-Myers: suggests that an examination of the conditions and contexts of

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[87] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 22 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: in relation to:  Personal development;  Improved professional practice;  Improvements in the institution;  Contribution to the good order of society. This critical perspective

Zwozdiak-Myers: in relation to: personal development improved professional practice improvements in the institution contribution to the good order of society This critical perspective

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[88] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 45 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: the aims of action research as a vehicle for educational reform as

Zwozdiak-Myers: the aims of action research as a vehicle for educational reform as

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[89] Arday p. 63 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 17 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Although action research has been recognised as a means to develop reflective practice and promote educational change,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Although action research has been recognised as a means to develop reflective practice and promote educational change,

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[90] Arday p. 63-64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 22 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Many studies have focused on written artefacts (portfolios, project reports, reflective journals) of teachers’ enquiries (Beyer, 1984; Bissex and Bullock, 1987; Goswami and Stillman,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Many studies have focused on written artefacts (portfolios, project reports, reflective journals) of teachers‟ enquiries (Beyer, 1984; Bissex and Bullock, 1987; Goswami and Stillman,

Control: shared citation: Goswami 1987.

[91] Arday p. 64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 20 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: teachers to engage in collaborative action research as a process both for professional learning and educational reform (Cochran-Smith and Lytle,

Zwozdiak-Myers: teachers to engage in collaborative action research as a process both for professional learning and educational reform (Cochran-Smith and Lytle,

Control: shared citation: Russell 1993, Somekh 2006.

[92] Arday p. 64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 24 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: four components (or domains of teaching): reflection and enquiry; learning about students; learning about pedagogical content knowledge; and, learning about social justice and democracy.

Zwozdiak-Myers: four components (or domains of teaching): reflection and enquiry; learning about students; learning about pedagogical content knowledge; and, learning about social justice and democracy.

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[93] Arday p. 64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: student teachers’ embraced the challenge of developing morally and ethically defensible practices,

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers “embraced the challenge of developing morally and ethically defensible practices

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[94] Arday p. 64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: undertook a systematic study of their teaching which focused on

Zwozdiak-Myers: undertook a systematic study of their teaching which focused on

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[95] Arday p. 64 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 46 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: their understanding of teaching underpinned by the commitment to provide

Zwozdiak-Myers: their understanding of teaching underpinned by the commitment to provide

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[96] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: These findings could be useful for comparative purposes in relation to

Zwozdiak-Myers: These findings could be useful for comparative purposes in relation to

Control: shared citation: Price 2001.

[97] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 18 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: finding time to reflect on their lessons; struggling to keep up with data collection; and, receiving support from

Zwozdiak-Myers: finding time to reflect on their lessons; struggling to keep up with data collection; and, receiving support from

Control: shared citation: Price 2001.

[98] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 20 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: although mentors could be a tremendous support for student teachers, simultaneously they could also ‘unwittingly set boundaries upon their experimentation’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: although mentors could be a tremendous support for student teachers, simultaneously they could also “unwittingly set boundaries upon their experimentation

Control: 35 percent inside quotation marks in Arday.

[99] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 13 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: this study also seeks to explore whether student teachers’ experienced any such challenges

Zwozdiak-Myers: This study also seeks to explore whether student teachers‟ experienced any such challenges

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[100] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: as they prepared for, engaged in and evaluated the impact of

Zwozdiak-Myers: as they prepared for, engaged in and evaluated the impact of

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[101] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 15 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: in addition to providing an explanation as to how oneself is positioned in relation to

Zwozdiak-Myers: in addition to providing an explanation as to how oneself is positioned in relation to

Control: shared citation: Guba 1996.

[102] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: teachers perceive action research to be a form of personal enquiry that

Zwozdiak-Myers: teachers perceive action research to be a form of personal enquiry that

Control: shared citation: Guba 1996.

[103] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: the study of self seems to be ideally suited to revealing

Zwozdiak-Myers: the study of self “seems to be ideally suited to revealing

Control: shared citation: Usher 1998.

[104] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: discourse about developing a personal epistemology of professional practice guided by

Zwozdiak-Myers: discourse about developing a personal epistemology of professional practice guided by

Control: shared citation: Grimmett 1990.

[105] Arday p. 65 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 47 · 15 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: insights into the actions of teachers, not only as educators but also as adults, who

Zwozdiak-Myers: insights into the actions of teachers, not only as educators but also as adults who

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[106] Arday p. 66 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 48 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: with Belenky et al., (1986: 227) notion of ‘connected teaching’ as a means to

Zwozdiak-Myers: with Belenky et al “s (1986 227) notion of “connected teaching‟ as a means to

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[107] Arday p. 66 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 48 · 27 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: through self-study there are ‘new possibilities for qualitative research to focus on the everyday practices by which individuals constantly construct and reconstruct their sense of individual identity’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: Through self-study there are “new possibilities for qualitative research to focus on the everyday practices by which individuals constantly construct and reconstruct their sense of individual identity

Control: 86 percent inside quotation marks in Arday.

[108] Arday p. 66 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 48 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: student teachers to have the courage to teach in ways

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers to have the courage to teach in ways

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[109] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Validation – determining the authenticity of the ideas and feelings which have resulted,

Zwozdiak-Myers: validation – determining the authenticity of the ideas and feelings which have resulted,

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[110] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: taking ownership of new insights and learning to inform future

Zwozdiak-Myers: taking ownership of new insights and learning to inform future

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[111] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 14 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: the description of a particular teaching situation, incorporates the view that reflective practice involves

Zwozdiak-Myers: the description of a particular teaching situation, incorporates the view that reflective practice involves

Control: shared citation: Boud 1999.

[112] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 17 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: unrecognisable as reflective practice. Some staff within placement schools for example, asked student teachers to reflect by

Zwozdiak-Myers: unrecognisable as reflective practice. Some staff within placement schools for example, asked student teachers to reflect by

Control: shared citation: Boud 1999.

[113] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Further, the emphasis placed on the need for personal disclosure was often

Zwozdiak-Myers: Further, the emphasis placed on the need for personal disclosure was often

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[114] Arday p. 67 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 10 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: to be beyond the capacity of some student teachers (Boud,

Zwozdiak-Myers: to be beyond the capacity of some student teachers. Boud

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[115] Arday p. 68 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 15 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: that when student teachers engage in reflective practice, they should probe and explore the following

Zwozdiak-Myers: that when student teachers‟ engage in reflective practice, they should probe and explore the following

Control: shared citation: Korthagen 2005.

[116] Arday p. 68 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 49 · 41 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: questions:  What was the context?  What did I want?  What did I do?  What was I thinking?  How did I feel?  What did the pupils want?  What did the pupils do?  What were the pupils thinking?  How did the pupils feel?

Zwozdiak-Myers: questions: What was the context? What did I want? What did I do? What was I thinking? How did I feel? What did the pupils want? What did the pupils do? What were the pupils thinking? How did the pupils feel?

Control: shared citation: Korthagen 2005.

[117] Arday p. 68 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 50 · 17 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Provide the basis for observations and reflections; 2. Observations and reflections are distilled and assimilated into abstract concepts;

Zwozdiak-Myers: provide the basis for observations and reflections; observations and reflections (2) are distilled and assimilated into abstract concepts

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[118] Arday p. 68 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 50 · 12 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: Produce new possibilities for action, which can be actively tested; 4. Through experimentation,

Zwozdiak-Myers: produce new possibilities for action, which can be actively tested (4) through experimentation,

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[119] Arday p. 69 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 50 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: on the notion that experiential learning is a process, which involves

Zwozdiak-Myers: on the notion that experiential learning is a process, which involves

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[120] Arday p. 69 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 50 · 11 words · 2.7 Reflective practice as an integral part of action research

Arday: is distinguished by attending to the organisation and construction of learning

Zwozdiak-Myers: is distinguished by attending to the organisation and construction of learning

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[121] Arday p. 75 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 58 · 13 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: involves reflecting both on the means and ends of educational goals and values

Zwozdiak-Myers: involves reflecting both on the means and ends of educational goals and values

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[122] Arday p. 75-76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 58 · 76 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: very clear links can be drawn between reflective practice and assuming responsibility for professional development: ‘When embracing the concept of reflective teaching, there is often a commitment by teachers to internalise the disposition and skills to study their teaching and become better at teaching over time, a commitment to take responsibility for their own professional development. This assumption of responsibility is a central feature of the idea of a reflective teacher’ (Zeichner and Liston, 1996: 6). Another interpretation

Zwozdiak-Myers: Very clear links can be drawn between reflective practice and assuming responsibility for professional development: When embracing the concept of reflective teaching, there is often a commitment by teachers to internalise the disposition and skills to study their teaching and become better at teaching over time, a commitment to take responsibility for their own professional development. This assumption of responsibility is a central feature of the idea of a reflective teacher (Zeichner and Liston, 1996: 6) Another interpretation

Control: 58 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Eraut 1994, Zeichner 1996.

[123] Arday p. 76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 58 · 19 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: of professional practitioners when they demonstrate:  a moral commitment to serve the interests of students by reflecting on their

Zwozdiak-Myers: of professional practitioners when they demonstrate: a moral commitment to serve the interests of students by reflecting on their

Control: shared citation: Eraut 1994.

[124] Arday p. 76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 58-59 · 24 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: and their progress and deciding how best it can be fostered or promoted;  a professional obligation to review periodically the nature and effectiveness of

Zwozdiak-Myers: and their progress and deciding how best it can be fostered or promoted a professional obligation to review periodically the nature and effectiveness of

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[125] Arday p. 76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 11 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: practical knowledge both by personal reflection and through interaction with others.

Zwozdiak-Myers: practical knowledge both by personal reflection and through interaction with others

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[126] Arday p. 76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 10 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: Standards in schools is explicitly stated in terms of the

Zwozdiak-Myers: Standards in schools is explicitly stated in terms of the

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[127] Arday p. 76 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 11 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: Further components within the Standards encompass both theoretical and experiential knowledge,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Further components within the Standards encompass both theoretical and experiential knowledge

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[128] Arday p. 76-77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 28 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: identified by Eraut. The interrelationship between the concepts of professional development proposed by Hoyle and John, of knowledge, autonomy and responsibility have been summarised by Furlong et al

Zwozdiak-Myers: identified by Eraut. The interrelationship between the concepts of professional development proposed by Hoyle and John, of knowledge, autonomy and responsibility have been summarised by Furlong et al

Control: shared citation: Furlong 2000.

[129] Arday p. 77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 12 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: that it is important for student teachers to clearly express and frequently

Zwozdiak-Myers: that it is important for student teachers to clearly express and frequently

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[130] Arday p. 77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 59 · 11 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: educational values, not in isolation and abstraction, but in collaboration with

Zwozdiak-Myers: educational values, not in isolation and abstraction but in collaboration with

Control: shared citation: Nixon 1995.

[131] Arday p. 77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 60 · 10 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: notes the difficulty often faced by teachers lies not in

Zwozdiak-Myers: notes “the difficulty often faced by teachers lies not in

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[132] Arday p. 77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 60 · 24 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: discourse suggests that some student teachers’ school-based teaching experiences could be incongruent, as values expressed in principle might not necessarily be demonstrated in practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: discourse suggests that some student teachers‟ school-based teaching experiences could be incongruent, as values expressed in principle might not necessarily be demonstrated in practice.

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[133] Arday p. 77 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 60 · 10 words · 2.12 Moving toward autonomy

Arday: experience autonomy in relation to making professional judgements and decisions,

Zwozdiak-Myers: experience autonomy in relation to making professional judgements and decisions

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[134] Arday p. 79 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 80 · 43 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: encompass ‘some notion of reflection in the process of professional development, but at the same time, disguise a vast number of conceptual variations, with a range of implications for the organisation and design of teacher education courses’. Furthermore, teacher educators, researchers and other

Zwozdiak-Myers: encompass “some notion of reflection in the process of professional development, but at the same time, disguise a vast number of conceptual variations, with a range of implications for the organisation and design of teacher education courses‟. Furthermore, teacher educators, researchers and other

Control: 78 percent inside quotation marks in Arday.

[135] Arday p. 80 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 81 · 14 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: examined the characteristics which key theorists, researchers and practitioners have attributed to this phenomenon.

Zwozdiak-Myers: examined the characteristics which key theorists, researchers and practitioners have attributed to this phenomenon.

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[136] Arday p. 80 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 81 · 13 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: Reflective practice has been conceptualised as a creative process in that student teachers

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice has been conceptualised as a creative process in that student teachers

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[137] Arday p. 81 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 82 · 16 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: take responsibility for their own professional development is prevalent not only in the governments’ agenda but

Zwozdiak-Myers: take responsibility for their own professional development is prevalent not only in the governments‟ agenda but

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[138] Arday p. 81 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 82 · 11 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: of reflective practice has become ‘a generic pedagogical principle’ (Tsangaridou and

Zwozdiak-Myers: of reflective practice has become “a generic pedagogical principle‟ (Tsangaridou and

Control: 39 percent inside quotation marks in Arday; shared citation: Sullivan 1997.

[139] Arday p. 81 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 82 · 11 words · 2.14 Summary

Arday: of reflection, in addition to developing student teachers’ reflective capabilities and

Zwozdiak-Myers: of reflection, in addition to developing student teachers‟ reflective capabilities and

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Ch4 Methodology for Research Study

[140] Arday p. 137 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 101 · 32 words · 4.1 Introduction

Arday: which supports the twin focus to educational research as: attitudinal- a distinctive way of thinking about educational phenomena; and action- a systematic means of investigating educational phenomena proposed by Morrison (2003). Decisions that

Zwozdiak-Myers: which supports the twin focus to educational research as: attitudinal – “a distinctive way of thinking about educational phenomena‟ and action – “a systematic means of investigating educational phenomena‟ proposed by Morrison (2002: 3). Decisions that

Control: shared citation: Strauss 1998.

[141] Arday p. 137 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 101 · 20 words · 4.1 Introduction

Arday: the selection of research methodology, Bell (2010) argues are dependent upon the nature of the enquiry and kind of information sought.

Zwozdiak-Myers: the selection of research methodology, Bell (2005) argues, are dependent upon the nature of the enquiry and kind of information sought.

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[142] Arday p. 138 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. viii · 12 words · 4.1 Introduction

Arday: Table 4.1: Key characteristics and assumptions underpinning positivist and interpretive approaches to research

Zwozdiak-Myers: Table 4.1: Key characteristics and assumptions underpinning positivist and interpretive approaches to research

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[143] Arday p. 138 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 103 · 28 words · 4.1 Introduction

Arday: Positivist Approach Interpretive Approach Assumptions: Assumptions:  Social facts have an objective reality  Reality is socially constructed  Primacy of method  Primacy of subject matter  Variables can be identified and

Zwozdiak-Myers: Positivist approach Interpretive approach Assumptions: Assumptions: Social facts have an objective reality Reality is socially constructed Primacy of method Primacy of subject matter Variables can be identified and

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[144] Arday p. 138 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 103 · 13 words · 4.1 Introduction

Arday: perspectives Approach Approach  Begins with hypotheses and theories  Ends with hypotheses and grounded

Zwozdiak-Myers: perspectives Approach: Approach: Begins with hypotheses and theories Ends with hypotheses and grounded

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[145] Arday p. 142 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 105 · 14 words · 4.4 Research Design

Arday: used to investigate ‘contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between

Zwozdiak-Myers: used to investigate “contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between

Control: shared citation: Yin 2003.

[146] Arday p. 152 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 110 · 10 words · 4.6.3 Participant recruitment and selection

Arday: the researcher held numerous discussions with two professional colleagues who

Zwozdiak-Myers: the researcher held numerous discussions with two professional colleagues who

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[147] Arday p. 152 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 110 · 27 words · 4.6.3 Participant recruitment and selection

Arday: this procedure was followed not only to derive insights advanced by professional colleagues who were knowledgeable and experienced within the field but also to ensure that the

Zwozdiak-Myers: This procedure was followed not only to derive insights advanced by professional colleagues who were knowledgeable and experienced within the field but also to ensure that the

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[148] Arday p. 152 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 110 · 16 words · 4.6.3 Participant recruitment and selection

Arday: particular perspective and stance was open to scrutiny and challenge and not merely imposed onto the

Zwozdiak-Myers: particular perspective and stance was open to scrutiny and challenge and not merely imposed onto the

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[149] Arday p. 155 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. ? · 13 words · 4.6.4 Pilot study open-ended questionnaires and considerations

Arday: the development of student teachers’ reflective practice within the context of action research

Zwozdiak-Myers: the development of student teachers’ reflective practice within the context of action research

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[150] Arday p. 155 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 111 · 16 words · 4.6.4 Pilot study open-ended questionnaires and considerations

Arday: embedded within the framework along with the student teachers’ descriptive, comparative and critical reflective conversations provided

Zwozdiak-Myers: embedded within the framework along with the student teachers‟ descriptive, comparative and critical reflective conversations, provided

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Ch5 Research findings

[151] Arday p. 200 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 159 · 11 words

Arday: Chapter 5: Research findings 5.1 Introduction The purpose of this study was to

Zwozdiak-Myers: Chapter 5: Research findings 5.1 Introduction The purpose of this study was to

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[152] Arday p. 200 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 159 · 11 words · 5.1 Introduction

Arday: Reflective practice has been defined as: a disposition to enquiry incorporating

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice has been defined as: a disposition to enquiry incorporating

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[153] Arday p. 200 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 106 · 17 words · 5.1 Introduction

Arday: structure or restructure actions, knowledge, theories or beliefs that inform teaching for the purpose of personal professional

Zwozdiak-Myers: structure or restructure actions, knowledge, theories or beliefs that inform teaching for the purpose of personal professional

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[154] Arday p. 201 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 159 · 13 words · 5.2 Professional learning support

Arday: reflective practice provided a focal point for analysing evidence gathered from student teachers’

Zwozdiak-Myers: reflective practice provided a focal point for analysing evidence gathered from student teachers

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[155] Arday p. 201 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 159 · 17 words · 5.2 Professional learning support

Arday: in their reference and are not intended to convey gender bias (Capel and Moss, 2005: 437). Research findings have

Zwozdiak-Myers: in their reference‟ and are not intended to “convey gender bias‟ (Capel and Moss, 2005: 437). Research findings have

Control: shared citation: Capel 2005.

[156] Arday p. 202 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 160 · 12 words · 5.2 Professional learning support

Arday: The main research findings of this study are drawn together in a

Zwozdiak-Myers: The main research findings of this study are drawn together in a

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[157] Arday p. 214 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 176 · 13 words · 5.3.5 Mentor-Mentee Relationships

Arday: knowledge from a range of sources as they seek to improve their teaching

Zwozdiak-Myers: knowledge from a range of sources as they seek to improve their teaching.

Control: shared citation: Stenhouse 1975.

[158] Arday p. 224 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 165 · 10 words · 5.4 Exploring the potential for initiating and implementing peer-mentoring among

Arday: basis, from a range of sources and perspectives as they

Zwozdiak-Myers: basis, from a range of sources and perspectives as they

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[159] Arday p. 234 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 169 · 13 words · 5.5 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: student teachers’ recorded personal thoughts, perceptions and modifications to their plan of action

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers‟ recorded personal thoughts, perceptions and modifications to their plan of action

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[160] Arday p. 259 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 174 · 10 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: Several improvements to personal practice are signalled in the above

Zwozdiak-Myers: Several improvements to personal practice are signalled in the above

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[161] Arday p. 260 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 174 · 12 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: ability to systematically evaluate and search for reasons behind the outcomes of

Zwozdiak-Myers: ability to systematically evaluate and search for reasons behind the outcomes of

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[162] Arday p. 260 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 176 · 14 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: is the capacity and commitment to link theoretical principles underpinning aspects of pedagogy with

Zwozdiak-Myers: is the capacity and commitment to link theoretical principles underpinning aspects of pedagogy with

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[163] Arday p. 260 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 176 · 22 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: own practice (Eraut, 1994; Stenhouse, 1975; 1983). Student teachers can draw on knowledge from a range of sources as they seek to improve their teaching.

Zwozdiak-Myers: own practice (Eraut, 1994; Stenhouse, 1975, 1983). Student teachers can draw on knowledge from a range of sources as they seek to improve their teaching.

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[164] Arday p. 260 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 163 · 11 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: Through descriptive and comparative reflective discourse the student teacher raises a

Zwozdiak-Myers: Through descriptive and comparative reflective discourse the student teacher raises a

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[165] Arday p. 261 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 178 · 10 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: and endeavour to link that knowledge to a specific context.

Zwozdiak-Myers: and endeavour to link that knowledge to a specific context,

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[166] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 189 · 10 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: which gives rise to modified practice through systematic, self-reflective enquiry,

Zwozdiak-Myers: which gives rise to modified practice through systematic, self-reflective enquiry

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[167] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 189 · 13 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: teaching approaches and strategies which worked effectively and discard or further refine those

Zwozdiak-Myers: teaching approaches and strategies which worked effectively and discard or further refine those

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[168] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 189 · 20 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: In this way, student teachers ground theory in their own teaching and build a repertoire of exemplars, images and metaphors

Zwozdiak-Myers: In this way, student teachers ground theory in their own teaching and build a repertoire of exemplars, images and metaphors

Control: shared citation: Schon 1983.

[169] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 189 · 10 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: they draw upon to frame each unique teaching situation (Schon

Zwozdiak-Myers: they draw upon to frame each unique teaching situation (Schon

Control: shared citation: Schon 1983.

[170] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 196 · 22 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: capacity and commitment to critically reflect on their own teaching and act upon insights gained to inform future planning, improvement and development.

Zwozdiak-Myers: capacity and commitment to critically reflect on their own teaching and act upon insights gained to inform future planning, improvement and development.

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[171] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 18 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: as they studied their own teaching was their capacity to enhance the quality of pupil learning and development

Zwozdiak-Myers: as they studied their own teaching was their capacity to enhance the quality of pupil learning and development

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[172] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 13 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: in three main areas: pupil progress or achievement, pupil behaviour patterns and pupil

Zwozdiak-Myers: in three main areas: pupil progress or achievement, pupil behaviour patterns and pupil

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[173] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 15 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: student teachers’ believed that pupil learning and development was attributable to their personal improvement in

Zwozdiak-Myers: Student teachers believed that pupil learning and development was attributable to their personal improvement in

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[174] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 29 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: main areas: greater understanding, insight and awareness about the principles and procedures of pedagogy; thinking more about aspects of teaching and their enhanced knowledge of pupil difference and diversity.

Zwozdiak-Myers: main areas: greater understanding, insight and awareness about the principles and procedures of pedagogy; thinking more about aspects of teaching and their enhanced knowledge of pupil difference and diversity.

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[175] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 11 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: perceived by student teachers to have been influenced as they studied

Zwozdiak-Myers: perceived by student teachers to have been influenced as they studied

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[176] Arday p. 264 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 215 · 12 words · 5.9 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: and commitment to seek alternative perspectives and possibilities to inform their teaching:

Zwozdiak-Myers: and commitment to seek alternative perspectives and possibilities to inform their teaching

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[177] Arday p. 285 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 224 · 12 words · 5.12 Summary

Arday: Summary This chapter has investigated the development of student teachers’ reflective practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: Summary This chapter has investigated the development of student teachers‟ reflective practice

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[178] Arday p. 285 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 224 · 11 words · 5.12 Summary

Arday: within the context of action research. The perceptions of student teachers,

Zwozdiak-Myers: within the context of action research. The perceptions of student teachers

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[179] Arday p. 285 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 225 · 14 words · 5.12 Summary

Arday: Interview transcripts were also analysed to identify qualitative distinctions in the types of reflective

Zwozdiak-Myers: Interview transcripts were also analysed to identify qualitative distinctions in the types of reflective

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[180] Arday p. 285 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 225 · 14 words · 5.12 Summary

Arday: The range between the number of descriptive, comparative and critical reflective conversations used varied,

Zwozdiak-Myers: The range between the number of descriptive, comparative and critical reflective conversations used varied

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[181] Arday p. 286-287 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 225-226 · 14 words · 5.12 Summary

Arday: These research findings and their implications are discussed in the next chapter. Chapter 6: Discussion

Zwozdiak-Myers: These research findings and their implications are discussed in the next chapter. Chapter 6: Discussion

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Ch6 Discussion

[182] Arday p. 287 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 226 · 13 words · 6.1 Introduction

Arday: Introduction This chapter discusses the main findings of this study and considers how

Zwozdiak-Myers: Introduction This chapter discusses the main findings of this study and considers how

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[183] Arday p. 287 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 106 · 14 words · 6.1 Introduction

Arday: of this study, has been defined as a disposition to enquiry incorporating the process

Zwozdiak-Myers: of this study has been defined as: a disposition to enquiry incorporating the process

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[184] Arday p. 288 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 227 · 15 words · 6.1 Introduction

Arday: this chapter is to discuss the main research findings pertinent to both research questions within

Zwozdiak-Myers: this chapter is to discuss the main research findings pertinent to both research questions within

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[185] Arday p. 294 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 231 · 12 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: This finding indicates not only that a range of research instruments were

Zwozdiak-Myers: This finding indicates not only that a range of research instruments were

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[186] Arday p. 294 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 231 · 11 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: was gathered from a range of perspectives which supports the argument

Zwozdiak-Myers: was gathered from a range of perspectives, which supports the argument

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[187] Arday p. 294 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 231 · 13 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: the need to gather evidence from multiple perspectives or lenses for triangulation purposes,

Zwozdiak-Myers: the need to gather evidence from multiple perspectives or lenses for triangulation purposes

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[188] Arday p. 294 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 231 · 17 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: this was in line with the approach adopted in other research studies for developing reflective practice in

Zwozdiak-Myers: This was in line with the approach adopted in other research studies for developing reflective practice in

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[189] Arday p. 296 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 233 · 15 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: feedback derived from multiple sources and multiple perspectives effectively to gauge their own practice during

Zwozdiak-Myers: feedback derived from multiple sources and multiple perspectives effectively to gauge their own practice during

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[190] Arday p. 296 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 233 · 15 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: Some findings however, which emerged from the student teachers’ perceptions raise several anomalies. For example,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Some findings however, which emerged from the student teachers‟ perceptions raise several anomalies. For example,

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[191] Arday p. 296 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 235 · 10 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: procedures is recognised as an integral component of professional development

Zwozdiak-Myers: procedures is recognised as an integral component of professional development

Control: shared citation: Stenhouse 1975.

[192] Arday p. 297 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 236 · 10 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: This needs to be investigated further, particularly as these processes

Zwozdiak-Myers: This needs to be investigated further, particularly as these processes

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[193] Arday p. 297 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 236 · 19 words · 6.3 Evaluating early experiences of the initial teacher training programme of study and

Arday: These areas need to be investigated further, particularly in relation to exploring strategies that might support the more descriptive

Zwozdiak-Myers: These areas need to be investigated further, particularly in relation to exploring strategies that might support the more descriptive

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[194] Arday p. 299 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 240 · 13 words · 6.4 Studying teaching for personal improvement through reflection

Arday: construct knowledge and use that knowledge to link theory with their own practice

Zwozdiak-Myers: construct knowledge and use that knowledge to link theory with their own practice.

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[195] Arday p. 301 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 4 · 16 words · 6.4 Studying teaching for personal improvement through reflection

Arday: themselves as teachers, their teaching, subject matter, pupils, and their roles and responsibilities within the classroom

Zwozdiak-Myers: themselves as teachers, their teaching, subject matter, pupils, and their roles and responsibilities within the classroom

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[196] Arday p. 301 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 244 · 10 words · 6.4 Studying teaching for personal improvement through reflection

Arday: the student teachers’ might have allowed their preconceived values and

Zwozdiak-Myers: the student teachers might have allowed their preconceived values and

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[197] Arday p. 301 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 244 · 10 words · 6.4 Studying teaching for personal improvement through reflection

Arday: their own teaching should personal theories and beliefs remain unchallenged,

Zwozdiak-Myers: their own teaching should personal theories and beliefs remain unchallenged.

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[198] Arday p. 301 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 245 · 12 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: student teachers’ identified a number of ways through which they considered alternative

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers‟ identified a number of ways through which they considered alternative

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[199] Arday p. 305 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 246 · 24 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: Boud (1999: 125) recognised that the emphasis placed on the need for personal disclosure in discussion forums was often found to be beyond the capacity of

Zwozdiak-Myers: Boud (1999: 125) recognised that the emphasis placed on the need for personal disclosure in discussion forums was often found to be beyond the capacity of

Control: shared citation: Boud 1999.

[200] Arday p. 305 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 246 · 15 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: MacDonald and Brooker (1999: 59) perceived potential barriers in student teachers’ uneasiness in working with the personal.

Zwozdiak-Myers: Macdonald and Brooker (1999: 59) perceived potential barriers in student teachers‟ uneasiness in working with the personal.

Control: shared citation: Macdonald 1999.

[201] Arday p. 305 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 246 · 23 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: particularly in relation to creating an environment of trust so that suggestions made by informed others can be perceived as constructive and non-threatening

Zwozdiak-Myers: particularly in relation to creating an environment of trust so that suggestions made by informed others can be perceived as constructive and non-threatening.

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[202] Arday p. 306 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 10 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: The capacity and commitment to consider alternative perspectives and possibilities

Zwozdiak-Myers: The capacity and commitment to consider alternative perspectives and possibilities

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[203] Arday p. 306 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 10 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: as an important element of student teacher professional development (Brookfield,

Zwozdiak-Myers: as an important element of student teacher professional development (Brookfield,

Control: shared citation: Dewey 1910.

[204] Arday p. 306 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 16 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: Results in this study showed the perspectives and lenses (Brookfield, 1995) most commonly identified by student teachers

Zwozdiak-Myers: Results in this study showed the perspectives and lenses (Brookfield, 1995) most commonly identified by student teachers

Control: shared citation: Brookfield 1995, Dewey 1910.

[205] Arday p. 306 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 11 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: student teachers’ considered alternative perspectives and possibilities to inform their own

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers‟ considered alternative perspectives and possibilities to inform their own

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[206] Arday p. 306 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 21 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: Within this dimension a number of findings raise the question as to whether some student teachers might have experienced barriers in

Zwozdiak-Myers: Within this dimension a number of findings raise the question as to whether some student teachers might have experienced barriers in

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[207] Arday p. 307 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249 · 19 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: This raises both ethical and professional issues. These concerns could be linked and, in part, might explain why some

Zwozdiak-Myers: This raises both ethical and professional issues. These concerns could be linked and, in part, might explain why some

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[208] Arday p. 307 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 249-250 · 17 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: These areas need further investigation, particularly in relation to finding out what causes might underpin these perceived

Zwozdiak-Myers: These areas need further investigation, particularly in relation to finding out what causes might underpin these perceived

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[209] Arday p. 307 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 250 · 27 words · 6.5 Establishing a Community of Practice

Arday: and discovering ways to overcome them, so that student teachers and experienced teachers can engage in dialogue to explore alternative perspectives and possibilities, in all matters concerning

Zwozdiak-Myers: and discovering ways to overcome them, so that student teachers and experienced teachers can engage in dialogue to explore alternative perspectives and possibilities, in all matters concerning

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[210] Arday p. 312 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 252 · 10 words · 6.6 Developing Trust within Peer-Mentoring

Arday: would suggest that they exhibited the capacity and commitment to

Zwozdiak-Myers: would suggest that they exhibited the capacity and commitment to

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[211] Arday p. 318 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 256 · 12 words · 6.7 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: they showed both the capacity and commitment to enhance the quality of

Zwozdiak-Myers: they showed both the capacity and commitment to enhance the quality of

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[212] Arday p. 318 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 256 · 14 words · 6.7 Critically and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and peer-mentoring at the end of

Arday: need to be investigated further, particularly in relation to possible barriers which might influence

Zwozdiak-Myers: need to be investigated further, particularly in relation to possible barriers which might influence

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

Ch7 Conclusions and Recommendations

[213] Arday p. 330 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 17 words · 7.1 Introduction

Arday: the following conclusions were drawn from the findings of this study and relate to the research questions,

Zwozdiak-Myers: The following conclusions were drawn from the findings of this study and relate to the research questions

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[214] Arday p. 330 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 15 words · 7.1 Introduction

Arday: Caution should be exercised concerning the generalisability of these conclusions beyond the student teachers and

Zwozdiak-Myers: Caution should be exercised concerning the generalisability of these conclusions beyond the student teachers and

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[215] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 268 · 15 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: reflective practice within the context of action research from this study, the results should be

Zwozdiak-Myers: reflective practice within the context of action research from this study, the results should be

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[216] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 268 · 29 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: due to a number of limitations. These are based on elements of the research methodology and design of this study, as well as the realisation that it is not

Zwozdiak-Myers: due to a number of limitations. These are based on elements of the research methodology and design of this study, as well as the realisation that it is not

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[217] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 268 · 16 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: with certainty whether the development of reflective practice would have occurred as a natural consequence of

Zwozdiak-Myers: with certainty whether the development of reflective practice would have occurred as a natural consequence of

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[218] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 38 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: The paucity of substantive research studies in initial teacher education and the diverse nature of those studies that have been undertaken to examine the development of student teachers’ reflective practice, particularly within physical education initial teacher education, make

Zwozdiak-Myers: The paucity of substantive research studies in initial teacher education and the diverse nature of those studies that have been undertaken to examine the development of student teachers‟ reflective practice, particularly within physical education initial teacher education, make

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[219] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 11 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: the sample size in this study was relatively small as participants

Zwozdiak-Myers: The sample size in this study was relatively small as participants

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[220] Arday p. 343 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 25 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: England. Although, results of this study might be relatable to student teachers following similar courses in initial teacher education, they may be difficult to generalise

Zwozdiak-Myers: England. Although results of this study might be relatable to student teachers following similar courses in initial teacher education, they may be difficult to generalise.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[221] Arday p. 343-344 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 30 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: challenge associated with qualitative research studies is that of interpretation. It was realised that there are several ways in which interpretation has potential to influence the results of this research,

Zwozdiak-Myers: challenge associated with qualitative research studies is that of interpretation. It was realised that there are several ways in which interpretation has potential to influence the results of this research.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[222] Arday p. 344 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 11 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: informed by the theoretical underpinnings, which have been advanced in the

Zwozdiak-Myers: informed by the theoretical underpinnings, which have been advanced in the

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[223] Arday p. 344 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 17 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: scholars; teacher educators and practitioners over past decades, in addition to discussions with professional colleagues, the framework

Zwozdiak-Myers: scholars, teacher educators and practitioners over past decades, in addition to discussions with professional colleagues, the framework

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[224] Arday p. 344 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 33 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: Evidence gathered to inform this study relied upon the research participants’ understanding of what information was being asked of them. Although research instruments designed for use in this study were assessed for fitness

Zwozdiak-Myers: Evidence gathered to inform this study relied upon the research participants‟ understanding of what information was being asked of them. Although research instruments designed for use in this study were assessed for fitness

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[225] Arday p. 344 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 269 · 21 words · 7.4 Limitations of the study

Arday: to influence student teachers’ responses should be noted. Evidence gathered to inform this study also relied upon the research participants’ judgements

Zwozdiak-Myers: to influence student teachers‟ responses should be noted. Evidence gathered to inform this study also relied upon the research participants‟ judgements.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[226] Arday p. 346 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 265 · 12 words · 7.8 Considerations towards reflective practice

Arday: these student teachers’ recognise the interdependent nature of reflecting on practice and

Zwozdiak-Myers: these student teachers‟ recognise the interdependent nature of reflecting on practice and

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[227] Arday p. 347 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 265 · 11 words · 7.8 Considerations towards reflective practice

Arday: commitment to engage in on-going professional development in order to improve

Zwozdiak-Myers: commitment to engage in ongoing professional development in order to improve

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[228] Arday p. 347 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 58 · 11 words · 7.8 Considerations towards reflective practice

Arday: to study their teaching and become better at teaching over time’.

Zwozdiak-Myers: to study their teaching and become better at teaching over time,

Control: 100 percent inside quotation marks in Arday.

[229] Arday p. 347 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 265 · 15 words · 7.8 Considerations towards reflective practice

Arday: with an invaluable point of departure and means through which this intention might be realised

Zwozdiak-Myers: with an invaluable point of departure and means through which this intention might be realised.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[230] Arday p. 349 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 267 · 10 words · 7.8 Considerations towards reflective practice

Arday: and identified as a key attribute of extended professionals (Stenhouse,

Zwozdiak-Myers: and identified as a key attribute of extended professionals (Stenhouse,

Control: shared citation: Eraut 1994, Stenhouse 1975.

[231] Arday p. 350 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 270 · 13 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: context of action research, replication of this study is highly recommended. Replication with

Zwozdiak-Myers: context of action research, replication of this study is highly recommended. Replication with

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[232] Arday p. 350 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 270-271 · 27 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: for comparison purposes. Replication in other subject areas can also add validity to these findings. A larger sample is suggested so that findings can be generalised. The

Zwozdiak-Myers: for comparison purposes. Replication in other subject areas can also add validity to these findings. A larger sample is suggested so that findings can be generalised. The

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[233] Arday p. 350 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 271 · 12 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: was designed to capture pedagogical moments in the context of the student

Zwozdiak-Myers: was designed to capture pedagogical moments in the context of the student

Control: shared citation: Macdonald 2003.

[234] Arday p. 350 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 271 · 10 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: MacDonald and Tinning, 2003). To that end, an exploration of their

Zwozdiak-Myers: Macdonald and Tinning, 2003: 89). To that end, an exploration of their

Control: shared citation: Macdonald 2003.

[235] Arday p. 351 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 271 · 25 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: A shared understanding and cooperation between universities and schools is necessary for supporting the professional development of student teachers. Results of this study suggest there

Zwozdiak-Myers: A shared understanding and cooperation between universities and schools is necessary for supporting the professional development of student teachers. Results of this study suggest there

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[236] Arday p. 351 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 271 · 18 words · 7.10 Recommendations for further research

Arday: which has the potential to influence the experiences of some student teachers. Thus, possible ways in which school-based

Zwozdiak-Myers: which has the potential to influence the experiences of some student teachers. Thus, possible ways in which school-based

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[237] Arday p. 352 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 14 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: drawn from the findings of this study and relate to the research questions posed.

Zwozdiak-Myers: drawn from the findings of this study and relate to the research questions posed.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[238] Arday p. 352 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 10 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: caution should be exercised concerning the generalisability of these conclusions,

Zwozdiak-Myers: Caution should be exercised concerning the generalisability of these conclusions

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[239] Arday p. 352 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 11 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: student teachers. Few studies have examined how student teachers learn the

Zwozdiak-Myers: student teachers. Few studies have examined how student teachers learn the

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[240] Arday p. 353 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 272 · 21 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: reflective practice, as defined in this study, can be situated at the heart of these learning processes. This research has therefore

Zwozdiak-Myers: Reflective practice, as defined in this study, can be situated at the heart of these learning processes. This research has therefore

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[241] Arday p. 353 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 273 · 22 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: to the research currently available in educational literature, which focuses on the impact strategies used to develop reflective practice in student teachers,

Zwozdiak-Myers: to the research currently available in educational literature, which focuses on the impact strategies used to develop reflective practice in student teachers,

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[242] Arday p. 353 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 273 · 11 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: influenced their capacity and commitment to: (1) study their own teaching for

Zwozdiak-Myers: influenced their capacity and commitment to: study their own teaching for

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[243] Arday p. 353 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 273 · 13 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: critically reflect on their own teaching; and, (5) continue to improve their own teaching.

Zwozdiak-Myers: critically reflect on their own teaching; and, continue to improve their own teaching.

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

[244] Arday p. 353 · Zwozdiak-Myers p. 274 · 24 words · 7.13 Final Remarks

Arday: To this end, providing student teachers with an opportunity to engage in contextually focused research activity which enables them progressively to become more effective

Zwozdiak-Myers: To this end, providing student teachers with an opportunity to engage in contextually focused research activity which enables them progressively to become more effective

Control: none. Presented as Arday’s own prose with no citation shared with Zwozdiak-Myers at this point.

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X: ‘Online Talk Spotlights Autism Traits in Cofnas and Arday Appearances’

X says:

The discussion arose after Cofnas shared a clip from his TV appearance, where viewers noted his halting speech and deliberate phrasing amid his earlier scrutiny of Arday’s academic record. Arday, once Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, resigned following plagiarism revelations and was later found dead; Cofnas now faces suspension at Ghent University. Commenters like Carl Benjamin and Professor Abhishek Saha agreed on Cofnas’s high-functioning autistic traits from personal observations, while Cofnas himself says his social skills lag and he seems more autistic than Arday. Critics like Priyamvada Gopal warn against remote diagnoses, highlighting debates on neurodiversity and public pressures.

The Autistic Person the University Wants

Priyamvada Gopal is right that you cannot diagnose autism from a television appearance. Stella O’Malley watched a clip of Nathan Cofnas on Flemish state television, noted the pauses and the deliberate word selection and the absence of the smooth performance the medium expects, and said his presentation looked autistic while Jason Arday’s never had. Autism has no single visible presentation. People mask. Compensation varies. Social confidence varies more. A clip is not an assessment.

So set the diagnosis question aside and keep it aside. Nothing below depends on what either man has or does not have. Arday died on August 14. Cofnas is under investigation at Ghent.

What the thread was reacting to survives the objection, and it is a question about institutions.

Universities have spent a decade learning to accommodate neurodiversity. They have learned to do it in one particular form. A person arrives with a diagnosis. The diagnosis enters a record. Adjustments follow: extra time, quieter rooms, written instructions, a named contact. The university writes a policy, trains staff, appoints an officer, publishes a statement. When the person succeeds, the institution tells the story, and the story has a shape everyone recognizes. Difficulty was overcome. Talent that others missed was seen here. Inclusion produced excellence.

Notice what the whole apparatus is built to receive — a category. Categories can be written down, budgeted for, audited, reported to a funding body. An institution is a machine for processing categories.

The difficulty comes from difference that arrives as conduct.

Consider the faculty member who does not register that a polite suggestion was an instruction. The student who keeps asking why the rule applied in that case and not this one. The employee who corrects a senior colleague in front of a room because what the colleague said was false. The researcher who returns to a question three months after everyone agreed it was settled, because it was settled socially. The colleague who follows every written rule and cannot infer the unwritten one that says do not embarrass this person.

There is no adjustment for that. There is no room to book and no extra time to grant. These behaviors are met in the moment, by people with their own reputations and their own irritations, and what those people experience is rudeness, obstinacy, poor judgment, an inability to read the room. The behavior and the offense are the same object seen from two sides, and the institution has no procedure that can tell them apart.

The easiest neurodiversity to accommodate is the kind that arrives as a noun. The hardest is the kind that arrives as a verb.

This is where the phrase you should have known that this was unacceptable does its work, because it means three separate things that get collapsed into one.

It can mean a written rule prohibited it. It can mean ordinary social judgment should have prevented it. Or it can mean everyone in the relevant hierarchy understood there was an unwritten prohibition and you were expected to understand it too.

A person can be excellent at the first and hopeless at the other two. And academic life is saturated with the third. Which questions are asked at a seminar and which are held for the corridor. Who gets challenged and who gets thanked for a stimulating contribution. When a disagreement is intellectual and when it has become personal. Which colleague you may correct in public and which you may not. Whose reputation is currently in play and whose has been placed beyond examination. None of it appears in a handbook. All of it is enforced. Someone who reads the handbook well and the room will break rules he never saw and will be told that he should have known.

The Jason Arday plagiarism question was a written-rule question. Does this text match that text. It required two PDFs from two open repositories and the willingness to read them side by side. Dave Harris, an emeritus professor at Plymouth Marjon, did it and wrote to both universities in 2023. Jack Grove of Times Higher Education did it and assembled a report. Anyone could have done it. Arday’s thesis and Paula Zwozdiak-Myers’s 2009 Brunel thesis share their final eleven words of title, and his limitations section reproduces hers with the substitutions visible to the naked eye. Where she writes that the results should be interpreted cautiously, he writes that they should be considered prudently. Where she writes that it is not possible to know with certainty, he writes that it is not feasible to conclude with certainty. Her sentence about the paucity of substantive research studies in initial teacher education appears in his thesis almost intact. Her sentence beginning evidence gathered to inform this study relied upon the research participants’ understanding appears in his nearly word for word.

Now look at how the institutions answered.

Cambridge’s head of policy, governance and integrity replied that the work predated the appointment and fell outside the university’s remit. The head of the Faculty of Education replied that Arday had spoken movingly about racism and about health difficulties during the period in question, and that he had her full support. Liverpool John Moores investigated and called what it found honest and reasonable error.

Read those three responses again. Not one of them is an answer to the question that was asked. The question was whether two documents match. The answers are about jurisdiction, about sympathy, and about a characterization of intent that the documents cannot establish either way. They are social judgments in procedural dress. Every one of them would be recognized instantly by anyone fluent in the unwritten rules as meaning the same thing: we are not going to do this.

And they worked, for three years, against people who had the written-rule case in hand.

The two journals that did respond responded in the same register. Social Sciences added citations to a single prior study across the abstract, the introduction, the methods, four subsections of the results, the discussion and the conclusions of a 2018 paper, then recorded that the scientific conclusions were unaffected. A correction spanning every section of a paper is a description of the paper. The editor treated it as a referencing lapse because treating it as anything else would have required doing something.

So the case is not an illustration of institutions preferring one kind of person to another. It is an illustration of institutions running on the unwritten layer even when the written layer has an answer sitting in front of them, and of how much force the unwritten layer can absorb before it gives.

That has a consequence for neurodiversity policy which nobody seems to have drawn.

If the substantive difficulty for people who cannot read social cues is the unwritten layer, and if institutional accommodation operates entirely at the written layer, then the accommodation is aimed at the part of the problem that was never the problem. Extra time on an examination does not help the postdoctoral researcher who cannot tell that the head of department’s question was a warning. A quiet room does not help the lecturer who does not know that this particular colleague’s work is not to be criticized this year. The person is accommodated in the visible system and remains defenseless in the one that decides careers.

You could design for this. You would have to make more of the unwritten layer explicit, which senior people resist for the obvious reason that its usefulness lies in its deniability. You would have to distinguish, in writing and in procedure, between three things that are constantly collapsed: an objectionable idea, misconduct, and socially atypical conduct. Universities are already bad at separating the first two. The third they barely acknowledge as a category.

There is an obvious objection, and it should be granted rather than argued with. Some of the behavior described here is simply bad behavior. Correcting a senior colleague in front of a room can be a genuine failure of judgment and not a difference in cognition. Persisting after a question is settled can be obstinacy. A man may be socially awkward and also wrong, and the awkwardness does not license the wrongness. Nothing here suggests that a diagnosis, real or attributed, converts a bad argument into a good one or excuses cruelty. The distinction the institution needs to make is hard because the cases are hard, not because administrators are stupid.

But the difficulty is the reason to make the distinction rather than a reason to skip it.

Which brings back the thing O’Malley was reaching for, in the form that survives Gopal’s objection.

A university has not shown that it values cognitive difference by celebrating a person whose difference arrives as a category and who has mastered the social codes. That case costs the institution nothing and returns a photograph for the website. The test is what it does with the person whose differences make the codes hard to obey, who is exhausting to be near, whose questions arrive at the wrong moment, and who will keep asking after everyone has agreed to stop.

Commitments are only tested where sympathy runs out. Everything before that is preference.

The Arday case is the reason to take this seriously rather than an example of it. For three years the unwritten rules held against a documented, checkable, written-rule question, and every institution that could have answered it found a form of words for declining. When it finally broke it broke catastrophically, in public, in the press, and a man is dead. Institutions that govern by unwritten rule have no way to release pressure gradually, because the rules cannot be cited, amended, or appealed. They can only hold or fail.

That is the argument for writing more of it down. Not for the sake of the people who find the unwritten layer difficult, though it would help them. For the sake of what happens when the layer collapses.

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What Neither Side Can Say About Harvard

Nathan Cofnas writes in the Wall Street Journal Aug. 21 that he rejects DEI in favor of treating people as individuals.

That triggered me hard, bro. It’s a lovely sentiment but it is not possible in this fallen world.

I have a rich fantasy life, but even I don’t entertain this ideal of treating people like individuals. It’s too tiring. I’m an old man. I don’t have the energy to start treating people like individuals until they become important to me, and only a small number of people become important to me. Otherwise, I rely on stereotypes, like everybody else, because they’re good enough.

Two paragraphs later Cofnas reports that under a colorblind system judging applicants only on grades and test scores, Harvard would be 0.7 percent African-American, a figure he takes from an internal Harvard study disclosed during Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

The number exists because somebody sorted applicants by race and ran the counterfactual. A man who treats people as individuals has no use for it. Later in the same piece he argues for measures ensuring meaningful representation of major demographic groups so that everyone feels a voice in collective decisions, which is a quota.

The diversity coalition says group remedy for group injury. Disparities in enrollment and hiring trace to historical exclusion, so the institution acts on the group to correct the group. Then challenge any particular hire and the answer arrives in the individual register: this scholar was assessed on the merits, cleared every bar, and the suggestion that race did any work in the file is an insult. Harvard argued both in one litigation. Race is one factor among many, never determinative, holistic. Also indispensable, since the internal simulation showed what removing it does.

Institutions typically address two audiences with one document and a lot of words about values. Public legitimacy runs on individual assessment, because a credential that anyone believes came from a group allocation is unsayable. Distribution of goodies runs on group accounting. Say the first alone and the program has no rationale. Say the second alone and every graduate carries an asterisk. So the institution says both, in different rooms, to different listeners, and never in the same paragraph. The arrangement is stable so long as nobody puts the two paragraphs side by side.

Cofnas has the same problem in reverse. He needs group data to establish mismatch and needs individualism to keep the position morally clean. He says the story was never about Arday. A man who treats people as individuals cannot use a man that way. His practice is group inference with an individual disclaimer.

The arrangement holds until reality rears its ugly head. Jason Arday was announced in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in the history of Cambridge, and the announcement did group work. It was repeated by every outlet that covered the appointment. When the record came under question, the group frame supplied no defense. The defense had to be individual, and the individual defense depended on a file that could not carry it. So the argument moved back to the group register, where it became a claim about who was scrutinizing and why. That progression looks like bad faith from outside.

An institution that cannot state its own arithmetic cannot audit its own files. Checking whether a given appointment came through the group column or the individual one requires asking a question the arrangement forbids anyone to ask out loud. So the check does not happen. Concerns reach an administrator who has no available vocabulary for evaluating them, and the safest handling is no handling. Cambridge reportedly held information about the thesis from 2023 and did nothing with it for two years, and reportedly knew about a fabricated account of a racist attack. An institution that cannot describe its own procedure has disabled its ability to inspect the results of that procedure, and it will keep discovering its errors the way this one did, from outside, at maximum cost, in the hands of people who owe it nothing.

Randall Kennedy states in For Discrimination that affirmative action is racial preference, and defends the preference on its merits. On the other side, the sayable version runs: group averages on measured traits differ, individual variation within every group dwarfs the differences between them, we therefore prohibit sorting by race in individual decisions and accept whatever distribution results. Both positions can be stated in public by a person willing to lose an argument.

In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote:

My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary importance… Liberalism downplays the social nature of human beings to the point of almost ignoring it, instead treating people largely as atomistic actors… Political liberalism… is an ideology that is individualistic at its core and assigns great importance to the concept of inalienable rights. This concern for rights is the basis of its universalism—everyone on the planet has the same inherent set of rights—and this is what motivates liberal states to pursue ambitious foreign policies. The public and scholarly discourse about liberalism since World War II has placed enormous emphasis on what are commonly called human rights. This is true all around the world, not just in the West. “Human rights,” Samuel Moyn notes, “have come to define the most elevated aspirations of both social movements and political entities—state and interstate. They evoke hope and provoke action.”
[Humans] do not operate as lone wolves but are born into social groups or societies that shape their identities well before they can assert their individualism. Moreover, individuals usually develop strong attachments to their group and are sometimes willing to make great sacrifices for their fellow members. Humans are often said to be tribal at their core. The main reason for our social nature is that the best way for a person to survive is to be embedded in a society and to cooperate with fellow members rather than act alone… Despite its elevated ranking, reason is the least important of the three ways we determine our preferences. It certainly is less important than socialization. The main reason socialization matters so much is that humans have a long childhood in which they are protected and nurtured by their families and the surrounding society, and meanwhile exposed to intense socialization. At the same time, they are only beginning to develop their critical faculties, so they are not equipped to think for themselves. By the time an individual reaches the point where his reasoning skills are well developed, his family and society have already imposed an enormous value infusion on him. Moreover, that individual is born with innate sentiments that also strongly influence how he thinks about the world around him. All of this means that people have limited choice in formulating a moral code, because so much of their thinking about right and wrong comes from inborn attitudes and socialization…

I reckon he’s right.

Further reading. John David Skrentny’s The Ironies of Affirmative Action (Chicago, 1996) traces how the remedy rationale gave way to the diversity rationale for reasons of coalition and legal survival. Frank Dobbin’s Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton, 2009) shows personnel officers building the practice and the vocabulary at the same time. Randall Kennedy’s For Discrimination (Pantheon, 2013) is the honest defense. Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor’s Mismatch (Basic, 2012) is the honest attack, and the two read together cover the empirical ground without either author pretending. Glenn Loury’s The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Harvard, 2002) supplies the distinction between discrimination in contact and discrimination in contract. For the legal architecture, Powell’s opinion in Bakke (1978) and O’Connor’s in Grutter (2003), where the twenty-five-year line promises that the arrangement is temporary.

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Strange Bedfellows in Cambridge and Ghent

Psychological Inquiry has a paper by David Pinsof, David O. Sears and Martie G. Haselton called “Strange bedfellows: the Alliance Theory of political belief systems.” Its claim is that political beliefs come out of alliance structures. People pick allies by similarity, by transitivity, and by interdependence, then support those allies with three families of propagandistic bias. The paper holds that these run symmetrically across the spectrum. Run that apparatus over the CofnasArday affair and most of the commentary of the past month becomes predictable.

Start with transitivity, which the paper defines as sharing the same allies and rivals, and which it treats as the strongest force in ally selection because it heads off infighting and betrayal. Every participant in this affair knew the roster on July 20. Cofnas is a rival of the diversity coalition. Arday was an ally of it. When a rival attacks an ally, transitivity assigns everyone a position before a single citation gets checked. The enemy of my friend is my enemy, and the accusation he carries inherits his standing.

Perpetrator biases arrive next. The paper describes them as downplaying responsibility, emphasizing mitigating circumstances, embellishing good intentions, and minimizing the severity of harm, and its central finding is that people apply these to allies as they apply them to themselves. The defense of Arday runs the full sequence. Errors rather than fraud. A childhood diagnosis. Pressures placed on him by an institution that promoted him. A career of good work reduced to a citation problem by people acting in bad faith.

The instructive case is Cofnas running the same bias on the same man. His Wall Street Journal piece of August 21 says Arday was an adult and morally responsible, then says he was mostly responding to incentives created by other people, and that his punishment exceeded any wrongdoing he may have committed. Perpetrator bias applied to the man he exposed. Alliance Theory explains the switch. Arday has stopped being the rival and become the exhibit, and the rival is now Cambridge, the press, and Ghent. The bias follows the roster.

Victim biases run on both sides and produce what the literature calls competitive victimhood, where each party works to establish that it suffered the greater injustice. One side gives us an essay on institutional murder, a vigil in Trafalgar Square blaming the press, and an account in The Nation of a funded transatlantic machine. The other gives us a Journal headline about a scapegoat, an inventory of death threats and smears, a politician denouncing a man by name, and the loss of a job. Both sides raise the perpetrator’s intent to malevolence, deny mitigating circumstances, and stretch the harm. Pinsof, Sears and Haselton note that victim claims sit awkwardly with any theory about protecting one’s self-image, since they advertise weakness, and make better sense as recruitment.

This story is attribution dispute all the way down. The paper’s finding is that people credit their allies’ advantages to internal causes and their disadvantages to external ones. Ask why Arday rose. One roster answers merit, the other answers preference. Ask why he fell. One answers fraud, the other answers a racist press. Ask why Cofnas lost two posts in two years. One answers his conduct, the other answers a taboo.

Cofnas is defended by the Committee for Academic Freedom, by Jerry Coyne, by Maarten Boudry, who thinks the hereditarian program is wrong, by the British right-wing press, by anonymous accounts that would embarrass all of the above, and by the American ambassador in Brussels, who has announced a review of the government’s relationships with a Belgian university over its handling of one postdoc.

A coalition assembled around free expression now includes a state reviewing a foreign university’s personnel decisions. On the other side, a union that condemns attacks on journalists singled out for criticism the man who published a story nobody has faulted for accuracy, and a coalition built on defending scholarly standards is defending a man against a plagiarism finding. The paper predicts patchwork narratives with incompatible principles, generated by the alliance.

The theory also predicts who breaks ranks and at what cost. Its claim about loyal partisans is that they are the most willing to condone what they would otherwise condemn, which makes defection a signal of a weak alliance. Brian Leiter grants that many of the allegations were warranted and faults the manner of the exposure. Steven Pinker grants the findings and calls the research program a place not to go. Boudry defends a man whose central thesis he rejects. Each of these people holds a status base that does not depend on the coalition he is defecting from.

The frame has limits. Applied without discipline it becomes unfalsifiable, since any position can be recoded as loyalty and any evidence-following person can be described as roster-following. The discipline available here is the coding test. Take fifty commentators with a public record on affirmative action before July 21, 2026. Code that record. Then code each one’s current position on whether the plagiarism claims are substantiated, on whether the exposure was legitimate, and on whether Ghent acted properly. If prior position predicts current position at a high rate, the theory has earned its keep on a live case. If it predicts poorly, the theory has taken a hit. Run the same design on a second list: people who demanded retraction and accountability in earlier fraud cases and now call this a witch-hunt, and people who demanded due process for accused academics and now welcome a suspension delivered by administrative letter. Both lists can be built from public statements with dates.

Arday’s thesis is here. Paula Zwozdiak-Myers’s 2009 thesis is here. The Cofnas post is here.

Further reading. Pinsof’s frame descends from Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban, “A Solution to the Mysteries of Morality,” Psychological Bulletin 139 (2013), which treats moral condemnation as a coordination device for taking sides. Eric Luis Uhlmann and colleagues, “The Motivated Use of Moral Principles,” Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009), supplies the experimental core of the double standards argument. Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban’s The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind (Princeton, 2014) develops the interdependence half of ally selection. Roy Baumeister’s Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (Freeman, 1997) is the source of the perpetrator and victim bias asymmetry that Alliance Theory borrows, and its chapter on the magnitude gap is the best short account of why two parties to the same event describe two different events. For the competitive victimhood literature, Masi Noor and colleagues, “When Suffering Begets Suffering,” Personality and Social Psychology Review 16 (2012).

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fordy, no

The stream is up eleven minutes and there are nine people watching, which is four more than last Sunday, when Luke went ninety minutes on Talmudic labor law and lost everyone at minute six.

He has the light right. He worked on the light. There is a lamp behind the camera bounced off a foam board he bought on Amazon, and a second lamp he keeps low so the ceiling of the apartment does not read as a ceiling. On the shelf behind his head, arranged that afternoon, sit the Steinsaltz, a Tom Wolfe paperback with the spine broken in three places, and the Big Book, angled so the title catches the key light.

Chat is quiet. Then Silent Bob. “Has Fordy reached out to Nathan to offer comfort, solace and potentially Alexander therapy?”

Luke leans toward the microphone and the chair creaks and his head goes back and down, which is the thing he has been paying a woman in Santa Monica a hundred dollars an hour to stop him doing since 2008.

“That’s a good question, Bob,” he says with only a small gasp for air and a modest tightening in his head-neck-back relationship. His throat hurts, which is the thing Alexander Technique was supposed to fix.

The email to Nathan Cofnas goes out at 12:41 in the morning. It runs eleven hundred words. Luke knows it runs eleven hundred words because after he had ChatGPT write it, he pasted it into Word, and then he trims forty words, and then adds sixty more suggested by Grok.

It opens warm. He establishes that he has followed the work. He establishes that he holds no position on the substance. He notes that he has been expelled from things, that his father was expelled from something in Colorado in 1980 and that the family ate the consequences for thirty years, and that he understands what is happening better than the people sending supportive messages.

Then paragraph four.

Bava Metzia 59b. The oven of Achnai. Luke explains that Rabbi Eliezer brings every argument in the world and the sages do not accept them. And they burn everything Eliezer ever ruled pure, and they excommunicate him, and they send the gentlest man among them to break the news so that nobody harsher does it. Luke types the phrase “which is more consideration than you got” and then deletes it, and then puts it back.

Paragraph six is the Alexander Technique.

He does not lead with the neck. He builds. He explains that most of what a man calls stress is a set of habits he cannot feel from the inside, that the head is meant to go forward and up and that under threat it goes back and down, that the pulling down is not caused by the threat but by the reaction to the threat. He uses the word inhibition and then apologizes for the word inhibition. He offers constructive rest, twelve minutes on the floor, knees up, a paperback under the skull, and says he has found F.M. Alexander’s own books unreadable and recommends starting with his own blog posts on the Technique. He offers to walk him through semi-supine over Zoom. He says the time difference is workable. He recommends silent lalalas. He had a student on Broadway who used them. He can’t mention names, but it is someone famous.

Paragraph eight is Step Four.

He says he is not suggesting Nathan has a drinking problem. He says the inventory is not about drinking. He says resentment is the number one offender, that it kills more of us than anything else, that when he lists a resentment he has to write down his own part in it, and that there is always a part, even when the other side did the greater wrong. He quotes the line about restraint of tongue and pen. He does not notice that he has now spent eleven hundred words at one in the morning writing to a man he has met once.

He attaches his essay. Of course he attaches four of his essays on Amy Wax (his magnum opus! history will vindicate him) and a further reading list including a Princeton monograph on European craft ordinances.

He reads it once more at 11:58 and cuts the sentence about his father, because it is showing, and then puts it back, because it is true, and then sends it.

The reply arrives Tuesday afternoon while Luke is writing in his gratitude journal.

“Thanks.”

That is the reply. Seven letters. Luke reads it three times.

By Tuesday night he has decided that “thanks” is warmer than it looks. He tells the stream this. Fourteen people are watching now, because the affair is hot and Luke’s name comes up in the search results next to better-known names, which is a thing he has noticed and will not mention because he’s but dust and ashes, a simple Jew.

“Nathan’s under enormous pressure,” Luke says. “A one-word reply under that kind of pressure, that’s a man conserving energy. That’s appropriate.”

Bob: “Fordy he blocked you”

Luke: “He did not block me.”

Bob: “Check”

Luke checks, on camera, and he is not blocked, he is still followed, and he says so with quiet dignity.

Live on screen he feels his back lengthening and widening. He performs mostly silent lalalalas and pulls on his red flex bar and remembers the one who got away in 1984 in Gladstone, the brunette with the twin sister. Then he takes a gulp of Crystal Light Orange Drink, zero calories.

Someone called shomer_shabbos_310 writes that Luke has now done to a stranger what the sages did to Rabbi Eliezer, and the chat runs with this for four minutes. Someone asks whether the Alexander lesson is billable. Someone asks whether Step Nine covers unsolicited emails. Someone writes that the man lost his job on a Thursday and got a reading list by Monday.

Luke laughs at that one.

Then he stops laughing and says the true thing, which is why nine people watch and then fourteen and then sometimes forty.

He says that in 1980 a committee sat in a lodge in Colorado for six days and at the end of it his father was finished, and that the thing nobody tells you is that the finding does not matter afterward. He says the men who voted knew the arguments and voted anyway, because the group needed a result more than it needed an answer, and that his father spent the next forty years being right in rooms that had stopped taking attendance. He says the loneliness of that is not the loneliness of losing an argument. He says a man cast out keeps writing letters to people who have agreed among themselves not to read them.

The chat goes still. Fourteen people, no messages, eleven seconds.

Then Luke leans in and the head goes back and down again.

“Which is exactly why the semi-supine work is so useful in a situation like this,” he says. “Twelve minutes. A paperback under the head. I could show him Thursday.”

Bob: “fordy”

Bob: “fordy no”

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The Nathan Cofnas Suspension Letter

From Jerry Coyne’s blog, Why Evolution is True:

UNIVERSITEITSDIENSTEN – BESTUUR,
JURIDISCHE ZAKEN EN COMPLIANCE
JURIDISCHE ZAKEN

REGISTERED MAIL
Nathan COFNAS

Katia Berlingieri
Head of Legal Affairs

E [email protected]
T +32 9 264 30 43

Campus Ufo – Rectoraat
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25
9000 Gent
België

www.ugent.be

DATE
20 August 2026

PAGE
1/7

OUR REFERENCE
TUCHT PERS 2026/0010/EN/LJ – Nathan Cofnas

Concerning: Initiation of the disciplinary procedure and decision regarding preventive suspension in the interest of the service (Disciplinary Regulations for Staff)

Dear Nathan COFNAS,

Over the past months, I have received several complaints, reports, and concerning signals from across the wider university community regarding your conduct and public actions. In particular, over the past week, additional concerns have been raised in relation to various interviews published in which you participated and the statements you made during those interviews.

In this regard I have decided to initiate a preliminary investigation as provided for in article 28 of the regulations with respect to disciplinary proceedings, the imposing of disciplinary measures, the preventive suspension in the interest of the service, and the taking of measures to ensure orderly conduct for staff members of Ghent University (hereinafter: “Disciplinary Regulations for Staff”). You can find the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff in the Codex of Ghent University via the following link: REG000237EN.

Article 3 of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff stipulates that any staff member may be subject to a disciplinary procedure in the event of:

(i) Offences that are committed in the university context. These concern either a serious breach of official/ professional duties (breach of a legal or a deontological duty as an officer), or an offence committed in the course of the performance of their duties/ the activities of Ghent University, such as (but not limited to), a breach of the internal regulations included in the Codex of Ghent University.

(ii) Offences committed in the context of private life, in so far as they are, on the one hand, criminally punishable and, on the other hand, have a negative impact on the functioning of the staff member or on the functioning of the service or have a serious negative impact on the well-being of or cooperation with other staff members or students.

(i) Offences committed within the university context

During a recent podcast interview with Winston Marshall published on 9 August 2026, you explicitly stated that you are currently continuing your work on “race realism” and the “hereditarian revolution” at Ghent University. These public claims, and the activities you describe, are fundamentally inconsistent with the contractual scope of your employment and constitute a manifest violation of your professional obligations towards this University.

Your employment contract (article 1) and the vacancy for which you were recruited (ref. LW01) define your research mandate as a study of “the future of liberalism”, specifically focusing on liberalism as a political doctrine emphasizing individual freedom and equality. The projects you publicly and repeatedly associate with your affiliation at Ghent University, most notably your ‘Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution’ which advocates for racial barriers and segregation, fall entirely outside the scope of your official research mandate.

Pursuant to article 4 of the Ghent University Work Regulations (Arbeidsreglement), employees are required to perform the work for which they were recruited and to execute their function in a loyal, careful, and upright manner. By publicly claiming to use your position and affiliation at Ghent University to advance research that is unrelated to your appointment, you are in breach of your professional duties and the loyalty required, as defined in article 3 §1 of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff.

Moreover, pursuant to article 1.3 of the Ghent University Code of Ethics, employees must ensure that any accumulation of activities does not entail a (perceived) conflict of interest or conflict with other standards established in the Code. Even if your work on ‘race realism’ were to be characterized as a private activity, its public association with your UGent affiliation creates a severe perceived conflict of interest and violates article 1.5 of the Code, which prohibits spreading ideas of racial superiority or inciting racial segregation.

The gravity of these cumulative breaches, involving deliberate public misrepresentation and the misuse of the University’s reputation to promote ideologies that conflict with its core values, as well as your decision to continue your research into ‘hereditary evolution’ and ‘racial realism’ at Ghent University, contrary to the terms of your employment, concern a breach of your ethical duties as a member of staff at our University and therefore qualify as a disciplinary offence committed within the university context.

(ii) Offences committed in the context of your private life

In a series of recent public interviews you made, including interviews with Winston Marshall (8 August 2026), David Starkey (9 August 2026) and Rob Montz (14 August 2026), I have established that you have made various statements in which you assert (among other statements) that racial or ethnic groups differ in intellectual ability for inherited or biological reasons.

Certain statements made during those interviews may be interpreted as advancing ideas concerning the inherent superiority or inferiority of racial or ethnic groups. However, neither freedom of expression nor academic freedom is unlimited. Both may be restricted by law where necessary to protect the rights of others and to prevent discrimination and racism. Belgian anti-discrimination legislation provides for such restrictions. Questions therefore arise as to the compatibility of your public statements with the objectives and provisions of Belgian anti-discrimination legislation, more specifically articles 20 and 21.

Furthermore, in several public interviews, you repeatedly referred to the late professor Jason Arday as being “mentally disabled” and made various other disparaging remarks concerning him, including, among others, describing him as a “worthless scholar”. In addition to the disparaging nature of these remarks, the University is deeply concerned by the way you have framed your actions.

By framing your interventions as a ‘crusade’ aimed at the systematic personal and professional destruction of colleagues, you have demonstrated that your actions extend beyond the permissible bounds of academic debate. Such behaviour strongly suggests an intentional and serious disturbance of the peace, which may fall within the scope of conduct protected against under Chapter V of the Belgian Criminal Code concerning offences against a person’s honour or reputation, including the provisions set out in articles 443 et seq.

The aforementioned findings have had a notably negative impact on the functioning of the University and on the well-being of, and cooperation with, students and other members of staff. Such statements conflict with the core of the University’s commitment to equality, inclusion and the dignity of all students and staff members and have caused serious distress and concern within the university community, particularly among students and staff members who may reasonably experience such statements as calling into question their equal standing within the academic environment.

Over an extended period of time since your appointment at Ghent University, significant concerns have been raised by members of the Ghent University community and beyond regarding your presence and activities within the institution. These concerns are not isolated or incidental in nature. They have manifested themselves through sustained and visible reactions from students and staff members alike.

In particular, students at Ghent University established the group “Students Against Cofnas”, specifically aimed at opposing your appointment at the University. Furthermore, in May 2026, a petition concerning your appointment was signed by more than 2,000 students. These initiatives illustrate that the concerns surrounding your presence at the University are widespread and have affected a substantial part of the student community.

Similar concerns have also been expressed within the academic environment in which you are employed. A public statement issued by your department in June 2026, which has been removed from public access, indicated that your presence had become a source of significant unrest throughout the workplace. This demonstrates that the concerns are not limited to students but also extend to colleagues and staff members who are required to work within the same academic environment.

In addition, the manner in which you publicly presented your role in the allegations concerning the late professor Jason Arday has reinforced concerns among the university’s community that your public interventions seem to develop into targeted campaigns of professional elimination. By framing the ‘exposure’ of a colleague not as scholarly debate but as a victorious act in a self-described ‘hereditarian revolution’, and by publicly calling to ‘purge’ institutions of those you label as ideological enemies, you have created a climate of severe psychosocial distress. As a result thereof, staff seem to perceive your presence as an objective threat to their professional standing and personal dignity.

The disturbance is further evidenced by objectified reports and files. Firstly, I have been informed that several confidential files concerning you are currently being processed through Trustpunt. Furthermore, IDEWE’s external psychosocial prevention adviser has been requested to carry out a study within the relevant department in order to objectively assess the impact of your employment on the wellbeing of staff and students.

Without prejudice to the confidentiality of those files and without anticipating their outcome, their existence and apparent recurrence provide a further indication that the concerns relating to your conduct extend beyond public debate and are also manifesting themselves within the University’s internal working environment. This reinforces the conclusion that the present circumstances have generated a level of tension and unrest that risks adversely affecting the proper functioning of the University and the psychosocial wellbeing of members of its community.

Your continued public invocation of your affiliation with Ghent University while disseminating these views creates a reputational risk. It generates a perception among external audiences that the University endorses or provides a platform for ideologies of racial superiority, which fundamentally undermines our institutional credibility and causes additional distress and uncertainty among staff and students regarding the University’s public standing and credibility. The scale of this impact is evidenced by the fact that in the past week alone, the University has received more than 100 emails expressing deep concern, and that number continues to grow.

The current unrest has therefore also given rise to concrete consequences for the University’s functioning. The University has been informed that a guest lecturer who was scheduled to teach during the forthcoming academic year has withdrawn from that commitment because of concerns relating to the University’s association with you. Furthermore, I have received information that additional consequences may arise in the context of its national and international academic relations, including discussions concerning a possible boycott of cooperation with Ghent University on account of that association. These developments demonstrate that the present unrest extends beyond internal concerns and is beginning to affect the University’s academic activities and external relationships. These examples are not exhaustive, and further reports continue to be received.

In addition to the initiation of the disciplinary investigation, as mentioned above, I have therefore also decided to suspend you as a precautionary measure in the interests of the service, in accordance with article 55 of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff. In view of the nature and seriousness of the facts, as well as the potential risk to Ghent University, I believe that this preventive suspension should be imposed as a matter of urgency in accordance with article 57(2) of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff, without hearing you prior to this decision.

The scale and persistence of the concerns expressed by students and staff, combined with the recent escalation following your public statements and media appearances, demonstrate that the current situation poses a risk to the proper functioning of the University and to the psychosocial wellbeing of members of its community.

Considering the volume and nature of the complaints, reports and expressions of concern received, the University cannot reasonably exclude the risk that your continued physical presence in the workplace would lead to confrontations, further disruption of the University’s activities, or a deterioration of the working and learning environment. Immediate intervention is therefore necessary to preserve institutional stability, safeguard the psychosocial wellbeing of staff and students, and prevent any further escalation of the unrest.

In these circumstances, waiting until after a prior hearing has taken place would not adequately protect the interests safeguarded by the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff. Deferring intervention would leave the current unrest unaddressed and create a real risk of further disruption to the University’s functioning.

The preventive suspension takes effect immediately and applies for a period of seven working days (up until and including Friday 28 August 2026).

As provided for in article 56 of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff, the preventive suspension means that you may no longer carry out any teaching, research or service activities as a member of staff at Ghent University and/or on behalf of Ghent University, nor may you participate in conferences or other activities in that capacity, unless you have the express permission of the rector. Furthermore, this preventive suspension entails a ban on contact with Ghent University staff and students, the provisional suspension of your account, and you are denied access to Ghent University’s sites and buildings.

You may submit your written response regarding the facts forming the basis of the preventive suspension by email to [email protected] by Friday 28 August 2026 at the latest. If you wish to be heard in person, you must notify us of this by email as soon as possible and no later than the aforementioned deadline. A suitable date will then be arranged.

If you wish, you may combine your written response to the facts giving rise to both the disciplinary preliminary investigation and the preventive suspension into a single letter. You have the right to be assisted in these proceedings by a solicitor, a trade union representative or an adviser of your choice. You also have the right to inspect the file and to obtain an electronic copy of it.

Following your written or oral response, I will decide whether to uphold or amend the preventive suspension in the interests of the service, or to lift it, in accordance with article 57(2) of the Disciplinary Regulations for Staff.

Should you feel the need to talk to someone, or you need psychosocial support, you can contact:

Trustpunt: an appointment can be made via [email protected];
Emergency response centre: 09/264 88 88 (24/7);
Tele-onthaal: if you need someone to talk to, telephone number 106.

Yours faithfully,

Prof. dr. Petra DE SUTTER
Rector

My favorite way of analyzing the recent anti-Israel riots on American college campuses was through the framework of business. What business would be OK with this level of disruption? None.

If we looked at the Ghent-Cofnas affair through the framework of business, we’d ask, what business would be OK with this level of disruption? We might answer none. Then a business might ask — who produced the disruption and what does our response encourage.

I agree with John J. Mearsheimer’s anthropology. To me, it is Torah (meaning truth). We’re profoundly tribal. We desperately need other people. And in exchange for their help and protection, we have to obey their rules or we get tossed out (cherem as excommunication, aka what happened to Spinoza). In our evolutionary history, expulsion has often been a death sentence, which is why we find it so upsetting. Our fear and anxiety prompt us to choose behaviors to minimize this unwanted result and instead pursue the opposite, pride.

Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, posted on Bluesky on August 23, 2026 that he does not know what should get a professor fired. He then supplied a list anyway: “disinformation, false science, hate speech and harassment.” Three of those four terms describe conduct or law. The second one does the sociology.

Each item in that bundle requires a separate finding. Disinformation implies knowing deception. Hate speech is a legal category in Belgium with articles attached. Harassment requires conduct aimed at a person. Accumulate four loaded classifications and the sanction follows without any one of them being established. Cohen is exacting about evidence when the question is whether an empirical claim deserves belief. He becomes less exacting when the question is whether a disliked academic deserves institutional punishment.

Thomas Gieryn published “Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science” in the American Sociological Review in December 1983. He moves the demarcation problem out of philosophy and into professional life. He says scientists draw the line in practice, in public, under contest, and they draw it with whichever attributes serve the fight in front of them. He read John Tyndall’s Belfast Address of 1874 and found Tyndall describing science one way against religion, claiming empirical rigor and cultural authority, and another way against mechanics and engineering, claiming disinterest and freedom from utility. The two portraits contradict each other. Both did their job, because each was cut to fit its opponent. Gieryn called the practice boundary-work and later called the product a map. He named the professional payoff: authority, resources, autonomy.

“False science” makes a claim about location. A charge of error invites reply, and reply costs the accuser a year of work and hands the target a citation. A charge of falseness in the demarcation sense costs one word and relieves everyone inside the fence of any obligation to read. Gieryn’s later book calls this genre expulsion, the removal of a claimant from the map so that his output can be classified without examination. The efficiency is the appeal.

The flexibility Gieryn described in Tyndall shows up here in the space of four lines. Cohen founded SocArXiv, has argued for years that the discipline needs post-publication scrutiny, and has pressed for correction and retraction of work he judges unsound. His 2025 book from Columbia, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists, argues that scholars should reach past the boundaries of their fields and speak to public audiences. In the post, the exposure of plagiarism appears under the heading of harassment, and the ground he singles out for distaste is the researcher working past the terms of his appointment. Gieryn’s account predicts inconsistency of this kind and explains why it costs the practitioner nothing. Self-correction is the field’s proudest attribute when the target is a study the field wants gone. Collegial protection is the attribute at hand when the target is a professor and the finder came from outside. The ideology gets deployed by the episode.

Ghent’s suspension letter runs the third genre, protection of autonomy, and runs it against the university’s employee. Jerry Coyne posted the six pages on August 21. One charge holds that Cofnas performed work “inconsistent with the contractual scope of your employment.” The letter locates the mandate in his contract and in the vacancy he was recruited under, which define his research as a study of the future of liberalism. That sentence draws the line between legitimate inquiry and illegitimate inquiry with an employment contract. No epistemic criterion appears. The map gets drawn by the personnel file.

The contractual charge is the strongest thing Ghent has and it turns on a calendar. Ghent hired him knowing what he works on, after Emmanuel College removed him over the same writing, and it proceeded through a spring of objections from staff and students. An employer who knows what a man does, hires him anyway, watches the complaint arrive in writing, keeps him, and never warns him has waived the objection. If a dated file on employment scope exists from March or May, Ghent has a case. If the concern first appears in writing in August, after the petition and after a man died, the rule was assembled to fit a conflict already underway. That question can be settled with documents.

A second passage in the letter reasons from the volume and nature of complaints to the risk that his presence would disrupt the working environment. The Committee for Academic Freedom, which says it has read the letter in full, describes the reasoning as resting on the reactions of others to his appointment. Maarten Boudry calls it one long heckler’s veto. In Gieryn’s terms the count of complaints becomes the evidence of transgression.

Both sides survey by census. More than twelve hundred signatures called for his removal. More than four hundred academics have signed a letter supporting him, and one of the people circulating the suspension letter is keeping a list of who signed.

Boudry sits at Ghent and co-edited Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem with Massimo Pigliucci in 2013, the standard contemporary volume arguing that demarcation can be done, and done with criteria. He now watches his own institution demarcate by counting email. The affair contains its own literature review.

Cofnas draws maps for a living. His hereditarian writing performs expansion in Gieryn’s sense: it claims territory currently held by sociologists of race and describes the holders as captured by taboo. He has written that there is no path to success that does not involve removing the activist non-scholars, which is expulsion stated without euphemism and by a man currently being expelled. His critics run the same genre against him, describing the work as race science and eugenics, describing him as a network operative, and treating the funding trail as a finding about the claims. His defenders draw a boundary of their own, placing the plagiarism dossier inside science and the Belgian disciplinary process outside it, in politics. The US Ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, entered on August 20 with a statement about dishonest institutions and a review of American relationships with Ghent. Everyone at this table is drawing, and an analysis that finds boundary-work on one side only is doing boundary-work.

The plagiarism finding used methods nobody disputes: text set beside text, claimed credentials checked against records. Nothing in the method comes from hereditarianism, and a graduate student with a library card could have produced the same document. Retraction Watch examined the allegations independently and quoted the research-integrity specialist David Sanders saying there is no question that extensive plagiarism is present. That corroboration sits awkwardly under the word disinformation. Whatever else was in the bundle, the central factual claim held when someone inside the integrity world checked it.

The same outlet reported in July that a news organization killed an earlier story on the allegations after the professor hired a law firm. That is the jammed room, documented. Concerns existed, a channel existed, and the channel closed under legal pressure, which is the condition that sends a finding to Substack instead of to a committee.

The demarcation attaches to the man and then travels to his findings. Gieryn’s word for what is at stake in these contests is credibility, and credibility attaches to persons and places. Cambridge announced a review on August 5, hours before the resignation. Liverpool John Moores holds the doctorate. Reuters describes the Ghent action as a precautionary suspension during a preliminary investigation. Whether any of this stands will be settled by institutions that have their own maps to defend.

Cohen’s posts responded to this thread by roterote:

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

The second part of the UGent suspension letter to Nathan Cofnas.

Clearly he is a problem at the university and causing discord and damage to the institution. A guest speaker even cancelled because of Cofnas’s association with UGent.

He was not suspended for whistleblowing. That is a Cofnas lie.

Also it is important to highlight the letter leads with the fact Nathan Cofnas is committing academic fraud by instead of working on what he was hired to do, he is working on race science and his revolution.

A lot of people are asking me how Nathan Cofnas was hired, UGent professor Bouke de Vries invited him to UGent. Bourke and Cofnas are part of the same global network to mainstream eugenics and far right academics. Of course funded by Peter Thiel and other rich far right activists.

This network has been running for many years now and has big American money behind it. Cofnas is just one of their guys and they are all over the world.

I can highly recommend @hopenothate.org.uk‘s report Race Science Inc. as a good starting place to understand how a eugenicist like Nathan Cofnas can get hired at two prestigious universities over more qualified candidates. This is a major far right project to give the academy’s legitimacy to them.

Another question being asked to me is how can Nathan Cofnas be studying the Future of Liberalism? Well that is because he isn’t studying the future of liberalism as an ideology he is studying whether certain groups having children is compatible with the future of liberalism. He’s studying eugenics.

A final thing to consider is how Nathan Cofnas views Academic Freedom in his own words. Cofnas clearly supports purging the academy of his ideology enemies or think academic freedom matters.

“From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn’t involve removing the activist non-scholars”

There is also a letter of support for Cofnas which has already been signed by over 425 academics from around the world.

I am keeping track of everyone who signed it in the thread below.

Two days ago the US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White also launched an attack against UGent and Belgium in defense of American Eugenicist Nathan Cofnas. This is the third time Bill White has intervened in Belgian politics. This is in line with the 2025 US National Security Policy against Europe.

Since 2025 there has been a major effort to both politically and financially support the rise of the far right in Europe. Recently millions were given to people via the US State Department like Nigel Farage to promote far right views and ideas.

This is part of the wilder Republican anti-EU project.

Notes

Roterote’s suggested links: Politico, Hope not Hate, Guardian, ByLineTimes. Read the Hope not Hate report as a source on funding and association. It makes no claim about whether a passage in a thesis was copied, and no reader should take it as answering that question.

Cohen’s post appeared on Bluesky on August 23, 2026, quoting a post about the Ghent suspension. Fourteen likes at the time of reading.

Thomas F. Gieryn, “Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists,” American Sociological Review 48, no. 6 (December 1983): 781-795. The Tyndall material occupies the center of the paper. Verify page numbers against the journal before quoting.

The three genres of expulsion, expansion, and protection of autonomy come from Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (University of Chicago Press, 1999), where Gieryn also uses “cultural cartography” and “credibility contest.” The 1983 paper supplies the argument; the 1999 book supplies the vocabulary a sociologist will recognize.

Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge on August 5, 2026 and died on August 14, 2026 at age 41. Confirm his year of birth before printing dates; reports give the age at death rather than a birth year.

Nathan Cofnas published the plagiarism analysis on Substack on July 21, 2026. He left Cambridge in 2024 after Emmanuel College acted on complaints about his writing on race, and moved to a postdoctoral post in the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent.

Ghent University announced a preliminary disciplinary investigation and a precautionary suspension on August 20, 2026, citing respect for human dignity and opposition to discrimination. Rector Petra De Sutter and Vice-Rector Herwig Reynaert issued the joint statement about the limits of academic freedom. Reuters reported the same day that this is a precaution during a preliminary review rather than a completed finding.

The Ghent student paper Schamper has been covering the appointment since March under a standing Cofnas dossier, including an interview with Dr. Pieter Beck arguing that the university must follow its own code of conduct, and coverage of his April 2 lecture. Anyone writing at length on this affair should read the Dutch-language record rather than the English coverage, which starts in August and misses the local argument.

Jerry Coyne posted six page images of the suspension letter at Why Evolution Is True on August 21, 2026, saying Cofnas does not object to circulation. Boudry posted excerpts on X and roterote posted the pages on Bluesky. Attribute each reproduction to the person who published it, and transcribe from the images rather than from anyone’s summary, including this one.

The contractual-scope charge and the passage on complaint volume both appear in Coyne’s reproduction. The letter also raises articles 20 and 21 of Belgian anti-discrimination legislation and articles 443 and following of the Belgian Criminal Code on offences against honor and reputation.

The Committee for Academic Freedom statement of August 20, 2026 says the committee has seen the letter in full and that the reasoning rests on the reactions of others. Boudry’s “heckler’s veto” characterization appears in his X posts of August 20 and August 21. He also claims parts of the letter were AI-generated, using the Pangram detector, and connects this to fabricated quotations in De Sutter’s inaugural speech. Detector output is not evidence. That claim is the one to verify hardest, because a fabrication charge against a rector inside a fabrication scandal is exactly the symmetry a writer wants to be true.

Bill White, US Ambassador to Belgium, posted the condemnation of Ghent on August 20, 2026 and referred to a review of American relationships with the university. Steven Pinker’s remarks about Cofnas appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 21, 2026.

Retraction Watch reported its own examination of the allegations and quoted David Sanders on extensive plagiarism, and reported separately on July 26, 2026 that a news outlet killed an earlier story after the professor hired a law firm. Get both pieces, the dates, and Sanders’s title and institution before citing either.

The signature counts are approximate and come from partisan sources on both sides. Verify the removal petition figure and the support letter figure against the documents, and note that the support letter is being tracked publicly by an opponent, which is worth stating when you cite the number.

A limit: Gieryn’s frame, applied without discipline, explains every position as interest and leaves no room for anyone being right.

Further reading

Thomas F. Gieryn, Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Chicago, 1999). The mature statement, with the creation science trials, the Cold Fusion episode, and the phrenology chapter.

Thomas F. Gieryn, George M. Bevins, and Stephen C. Zehr, “Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/Evolution Trials,” American Sociological Review 50 (1985): 392-409. The nearest analogue in the literature to a demarcation fight conducted in front of a lay audience with legal stakes.

Thomas F. Gieryn, “Boundaries of Science,” in Sheila Jasanoff et al., eds., Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Sage, 1995), 393-443. The review essay, useful for citations you can drop into a paragraph.

Robert K. Merton, “The Normative Structure of Science” (1942), collected in The Sociology of Science (Chicago, 1973). The account of organized skepticism and disinterestedness that Gieryn reclassifies as a rhetorical resource rather than a description of behavior. Read the two together and the argument becomes visible.

Michael Mulkay, “Norms and Ideology in Science,” Social Science Information 15 (1976): 637-656. The precursor claim that the Mertonian norms function as vocabulary rather than as rules.

Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry, eds., Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (Chicago, 2013). The philosophical counterattack, arguing that demarcation can be done on principled grounds. Boudry’s presence in the present affair makes the volume more than a citation.

Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Princeton, 1985). Boundaries built rather than found, with Hobbes placed outside the experimental community by the community’s own construction.

Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (California, 1996). A case where outsiders crossed the fence and acquired credibility inside it, which is the possibility the present affair forecloses.

Two Rules

Every guild polices two things. It polices the product, because outsiders buy the mark and the mark is collective property. It polices the members, because a trade whose members hand each other to strangers does not last a generation. Medieval craft statutes carry both duties on the same page. Wardens inspect the cloth and seize the defective bolt. Brothers swear to bring grievances to the guild court before they take them to the town, and a master who slanders a master in the street pays a fine for it. Do not fake the goods. Do not hand a brother to the guild’s enemies. Both rules are old and both work.

They rarely collide, because a guild handles its own fraud in its own room. A master who waters the dye gets called in, fined, corrected, and if he persists, removed, and the customers hear about the standard while the failure stays inside. The two rules stay compatible as long as the internal room functions.

The room jammed at Cambridge. Concerns about Jason Arday’s doctoral thesis surfaced years before this summer and went nowhere, and a reporter who started pulling the thread backed off after a threat of legal action. Whatever the merits of the allegations, the institutions holding them chose the cost of inaction. That choice is the origin of everything that followed.

When the room jams, a member with a finding has two moves. He can eat it, which is what the trade expects and what most members do. Or he can go outside, and outside now means a Substack post, a lay audience, and a coalition of people who dislike the guild and will use his document for their own purposes. Nathan Cofnas went outside on July 21, 2026. Arday resigned on August 5 and died on August 14. On August 20, Ghent University suspended Cofnas as a precautionary measure pending a preliminary disciplinary investigation.

Read the suspension letter with a manager’s eye. Two thousand students sign a petition. Staff file complaints. A hundred emails arrive in a week. A guest lecturer withdraws. A boycott gets discussed. Files sit open at the university’s integrity desk and the external occupational health service has been called in. The rector concludes that the situation threatens “the proper functioning of the University.” Strip the names and that paragraph could come from any firm with a personnel problem.

A firm would ask a second question. Who produced the disruption and what the response teaches everyone watching. An employee says something lawful and unpopular. Two thousand colleagues demand his removal, customers send angry mail, a supplier threatens to walk. Management now has a problem and a bad solution. Remove the man because others made him expensive, and the firm has published a price list. Anyone able to generate a hundred emails can now select who works there. Ghent has taught its own faculty that thirty signatures and a week of coordination will end a colleague, and the next coalition will read the lesson. Maarten Boudry calls the letter one long heckler’s veto, and the Committee for Academic Freedom, describes its reasoning as resting on the reactions of others to his appointment.

Ghent has one argument that escapes this. The letter claims Cofnas was engaged on a project concerning the future of liberalism and presented his race research as work conducted at Ghent, attaching the university’s name to an enterprise outside the terms of his appointment. If that holds up, the case stops being a heckler’s veto and becomes an ordinary employment claim. Any employer may tell a researcher that the institutional letterhead covers the funded project and nothing else. Arbitrators enforce that. Journals enforce affiliation rules. The claim is checkable and nobody has checked it: what the appointment document says, who funded the post and under what call, whether Ghent ever told him in writing where the boundary sat, and whether he used the affiliation for the Arday work and the interviews. Four emails and an afternoon in the Ghent research portal settles it.

Ghent hired Cofnas knowing what he works on. He arrived after Emmanuel College removed him in 2024 over the same body of writing. In March 2026, more than three hundred staff and students questioned whether his views were compatible with the university’s ethics code, and Ghent proceeded. An employer who knows what a man does, hires him anyway, watches the objection arrive in writing, keeps him, and never warns him has waived the objection. So the scope charge lives or dies by a calendar. If a file on employment scope exists from March or May, Ghent has a case and this affair looks different. If the concern first appears in writing in August, after the petition and after a man died, the rule was assembled to fit a conflict already underway.

A coalition that expels a member for breaking a rule that existed before the quarrel is doing what coalitions do and must do. A coalition that expels a member because his presence has become expensive, then writes the expense up as a violation, has done something else. Build the timeline column by column and the letter answers for itself: hire date, the March objections, the July 21 post, the interviews of August 8, 9, and 14, Arday’s death on August 14, the petition, the hundred emails, the letter of August 20. Then mark which entries the letter cites as grounds and when each one happened.

Mearsheimer’s anthropology reaches further than any free-speech argument. Institutions are coalitions. Membership supplies protection, income and standing, and charges obligations in return, and every functioning coalition polices the edge of tolerable behavior. Cherem is one example. Amsterdam put Spinoza (1632-1677) under the ban in 1656, and the community doing it held a young and conditional welcome in a Calvinist republic that was watching. The elders were doing arithmetic about survival. The rabbinic prohibition on mesirah, carrying information about a Jew to gentile power, comes from centuries of survival in frequently adverse conditions. Rule two is the rule of groups that cannot count on the outside world, and the professoriate in 2026 believes it cannot count on the outside world, with funding under threat and the American ambassador announcing a review of relationships with a Belgian university.

The rabbis, having made the rule, also made the exception. Informing is permitted when the man endangers the community. The tradition kept a door in the wall, because a rule with no door protects the predator alongside the brother, and maintaining the door is the hard part, since every accused man swears the accuser walked through it in bad faith. Ghent’s letter has no door. It weighs the volume of complaints, the risk of confrontation, the withdrawal of a lecturer, the wellbeing of staff. It never asks whether the information was true and whether the community needed it. The next member with a finding will remember this letter.

Consider what a trade becomes once that ranking is public. Fraud gets priced as an internal expense, absorbed the way a store absorbs shrinkage, as the cost of avoiding a scene. Detection migrates outward, since the incentive to look has been removed from the inside. The outside auditors are journalists with a story to sell, activists with a target list, and governments with a grievance, and none of them owes an accused man a fair reading. The guild has subcontracted the audit to its enemies and lost the power to correct their errors. Members adjust. A young scholar who notices that a famous colleague’s citations fail to check out learns what to do with the observation, and he is right to put it away. Then the mark loses value, and a guild facing falling external trust responds by policing loyalty harder, because auditing produces findings and findings feed the enemies. The Catholic hierarchy ran that loop for forty years before the Boston Globe finished it in 2002. Police departments run it. Medicine runs it with impaired physicians. Each of them paid, in the end, many times what candor would have cost, and the members who paid most had done nothing.

A university sells the credibility of its findings. The disruption ledger and the audit function draw on one asset, so a rector who fires the auditor to protect operations has sold the inventory to make the rent. The trade is available and the books look better for a season. Ask what the mark is worth in year three.

The cost lands on people who never entered the argument. It lands on the next scholar accused by an outsider with worse evidence and no standards, who now has no internal body with the credibility to clear him. It lands hardest on Black academics. The claim made by the critics of diversity hiring is that the credentials go unchecked. A guild that declines to check, and disciplines the man who checked, has conceded the premise by conduct while denying it in statements. Arday’s record will now never be adjudicated by anyone with standing to settle it, which serves nobody who admired him and leaves his defenders arguing about the machine.

Two tests remain. The first is the calendar, and Ghent can end the argument tomorrow by producing a dated file on employment scope that predates the petition. The second is the dossier. Liverpool John Moores holds the doctorate, Cambridge holds the appointment, and any journal could commission a review of the passages this week. If a sociologist reads the document, checks the sources, and publishes a finding on the merits, the guild kept both rules and mishandled a hard fortnight. If a year passes and no one inside the discipline will touch it because of who assembled it, the ranking is settled doctrine, and the trade has told its customers what the mark is worth.

Notes on sources and verification follow.

1. Dates used here: the Substack post of July 21, 2026; Arday’s resignation on August 5 and death on August 14, at 41; the interviews of August 8, 9, and 14; the suspension announced August 20.

2. The letter’s contents reach me through Jerry Coyne’s six page images, posted August 21 with Cofnas raising no objection to circulation.

3. The disruption inventory, the petition figure, the email count, the withdrawn lecturer, the boycott discussion, the integrity desk and the occupational health referral, all come from readings of the letter.

4. The employment mandate concerning the future of liberalism is the pivot of the essay and remains unverified.

5. The March 2026 objections are reported by Times Higher Education, which puts the number above three hundred and notes a counter-letter in his support. Other outlets give a figure above twelve hundred for a later letter. Reconcile these before citing either.

6. Ghent’s public position appears in the joint statement from De Sutter and Vice-Rector Herwig Reynaert, reported by the Irish Times and Inside Higher Ed. Cofnas announced the suspension on X the same afternoon.

7. Boudry also claims parts of the letter were machine-generated, using a detector, and ties this to fabricated quotations in the rector’s inaugural address. Detector output is not evidence. Verify that claim harder than any other in the file, because a fabrication charge against a rector inside a fabrication scandal is exactly the symmetry a writer wants to be true.

8. On mesirah and its exception the halakhic literature is contested and the exception is where the disagreement lives. Take the formulation from a rabbi you trust rather than from an encyclopedia entry.

9. The guild statutes described here are common across craft ordinances and vary by trade, city and century.

10. Opposing views: Sneha Krishnan on institutional murder, Jafari Sinclaire Allen in The Nation, and Steven Pinker’s remarks in the Wall Street Journal, which grant the findings and fault the manner.

Further reading. Stephan R. Epstein, “Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe,” Journal of Economic History 58 (1998): 684-713. The case that guilds solved real problems of quality and training.

Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis (Princeton, 2019). The case against, arguing that guilds served members at the customer’s expense. Read with Epstein and take neither at full strength.

Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (Cambridge, 1990). On graduated sanctions and internal conflict-resolution arenas, which is what a functioning guild room is and what Cambridge did not supply.

Yosef Kaplan, From Christianity to Judaism (Oxford, 1989), and Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999). The Amsterdam community’s position and what the 1656 cherem was protecting.

Boston Globe Spotlight Team, Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (Little, Brown, 2002). A record of what a guild pays when rule two governs for forty years.

C. Fred Alford, Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Cornell, 2001). On what happens to the member afterward, which is the part the moral arguments leave out.

Nathan Cofnas: ‘How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair. I have been smeared as a racist and threatened with violence. My university suspended me. All I did was tell the truth.’ (Aug. 21, 2026)

Cofnas writes:

For me, this story was never about Arday or even Cambridge. It was about the system of DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion—which applies different standards to people based on identity characteristics like skin color. Arday was an extreme example of how DEI policies can create a mismatch between qualifications and position.

I reject DEI in favor of treating people as individuals. The whole range of talent exists within every race and both sexes. But I don’t believe in equal outcomes as a moral ideal, or as something that is likely to occur in a free society.

Who is responsible for the tragic outcome? Start with the university. The Cambridge administration has been aware of Arday’s plagiarism since at least 2023, when they were tipped off by another academic, Dave Harris. They also knew about his propensity for fabulation since at least last year, when he falsely reported being attacked by a racist with a knife in his Cambridge office. They had years to find a way to let Arday down gently, for example by moving him into a nonresearch position. Instead, they apparently planned to cover up the scandal for three decades until his retirement. They set him up for humiliation…

Few people are aware that my statement about Harvard admissions was summarizing a finding by Harvard itself. In the course of the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard lawsuit, Harvard disclosed an internal study conducted in 2013, which found that, if admissions were based only on grades and test scores, the undergraduate population would be 0.7% African-American—a significant reduction from current levels. Racial representation at many American institutions is maintained by Harvard-style affirmative action.

I didn’t quote Harvard’s statistic to celebrate it, or because I believe that black people don’t belong at universities. There are many brilliant black scholars. But it’s a difficult fact to face that in a truly colorblind system that didn’t take race into account, there would be a shocking lack of diversity in certain institutions. As I said in the controversial essay that mentions the Harvard statistic, “when it comes to policymaking in a multiracial society, we might need to make sure that everyone feels they have a voice in determining our collective fate.” To this end, I argued for taking measures to ensure meaningful representation of major demographic groups. But we shouldn’t do this under the banner of DEI, which automatically blames differences in outcome on white racism.

This is that rare essay that might not be improved by an AI challenge.

Cofnas assigns responsibility in descending order: Arday first, then Cambridge at length, then the press at length, then himself, in three sentences, framed as a question he declines to answer.

The Harvard 0.7 percent is the sentence that made him notorious and it comes from an internal 2013 Harvard study disclosed in the SFFA litigation.

Cofnas says the story was never about Arday. He used a man as an instance in an argument about a policy. His critics say so. He agrees.

He argues for measures ensuring representation of major demographic groups while rejecting the DEI framing, which complicates the caricature.

The op-ed ran the day after the suspension with the paywall lifted. The ambassador spoke the same week. He has become an instance in an American argument about European universities, which is the same relation he had to Arday, running the other way.

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Amy Wax, Behavior Genetics, and the Origins Question

In her 2010 paper on diverging family structure, Amy Wax names the traits and stops. Discount rate, executive function, self-control, future orientation, conscientiousness, cognitive ability. She correlates them with education, occupation, and demographic group. She observes that they determine who thrives under normative deregulation. Then she declines to say where they come from. She knows what the next question is. Everyone reading the paper knows what the next question is. She writes that the source of the observed differences, whether grounded in culture or individual characteristics, warrants further investigation, and leaves the sentence to do the work of a chapter.

Prudence explains part of it. A working paper for an Elgar volume on family law cannot carry a full treatment of behavior genetics and survive as a paper about family law. Any paper that takes on the heritability of self-regulation across populations becomes a paper about that, and the local-versus-global model gets read as a vehicle rather than as a claim. Wax had already written enough to guarantee hostility. Adding the origins question would have guaranteed that nothing else in the paper got discussed.

Legal scholarship has no procedure for adjudicating this kind of empirical dispute. A law review cannot referee a quarrel among statistical geneticists. What it can do is cite, and citation in a contested field is taken as endorsement. Wax’s choices were to cite the hereditarian literature and be read as endorsing it, cite the environmentalist literature and be read as endorsing that, or cite neither. She cited neither, with two exceptions buried in footnotes: a 1981 Sandra Scarr volume on race, social class, and individual differences in IQ, and a reference to average racial and ethnic differences in personality profiles on employment screening tests.

Her argument runs: a latent distribution of self-regulatory capacity existed before 1960; strong norms masked it; deregulation revealed it; the revealed differential now compounds across generations. A theory that explains how a latent difference becomes manifest after a regime change is incomplete without a theory of where the latent difference came from. Without one, the framework risks circularity. Populations differ in outcomes because they differ in decision style; we infer the decision style from the outcomes.

Start with what the three literatures say.

The first literature, on within-population heritability of cognitive ability and personality, is about as settled as anything in social science. Twin, adoption, and sibling designs across many Western samples converge on adult heritability estimates for measured cognitive ability in the range of fifty to eighty percent, with the estimate rising through childhood and adolescence and stabilizing in adulthood. Personality traits, including conscientiousness, run lower, in the range of forty to fifty percent. These are variance-partitioning results within the populations sampled, and they do not say what any individual’s score is caused by. They are also not seriously contested by anyone who works with the data. Robert Plomin (b. 1948) has spent a career establishing them and Eric Turkheimer, who dislikes almost every use to which they are put, does not dispute them.

The second literature, on between-population differences, is where the confidence collapses. The classic point from Richard Lewontin (1929-2021) holds: within-group heritability licenses no inference about between-group causes. Two batches of seed with identical genetic variance, grown in different soils, produce mean differences that are entirely environmental while heritability within each batch stays high.

The obvious response is that molecular genetics should settle what quantitative genetics cannot. It has not. Polygenic scores for cognitive ability and educational attainment, built from genome-wide association studies conducted almost entirely in European-ancestry samples, lose most of their predictive power when applied to other ancestry groups. The loss comes from differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns, differences in allele frequencies, and confounding by population structure that within-sample controls do not remove. Comparing mean polygenic scores across ancestry groups, which several authors have attempted, is a procedure that statistical geneticists reject on the grounds that the tools currently cannot do the job.

Against the persistence of measured gaps stands the Flynn effect. James Flynn (1934-2020) documented gains in measured cognitive ability across the twentieth century of roughly three points per decade in many countries, which is to say that the environmental headroom on population means exceeds the size of the differences under dispute. Whatever produced those gains was not genetic change. Some portion of the American Black-White gap has narrowed over the same period, by amounts that vary by test and cohort. Transracial adoption studies exist on both sides of the question and all of them are small, old, and confounded.

The between-population question is open, the confidence expressed on both sides exceeds what the data support, and anyone who tells you it is settled is telling you about his coalition.

The behavior-genetic literature does contain a finding that wounds Wax’s argument. Wax’s fallback, and the fallback her sympathetic readers reach for, is the developmental loop. Family structures produce the developmental environments of children; those children acquire the traits; the traits reproduce the family structures. She writes that restraint, moderation, emotional control, trustworthiness, persistence, and sobriety develop best when children live with both biological parents in stable marital homes. The loop generates path-dependent equilibria without invoking any heritable substrate difference, which is exactly why it appeals.

The trouble is that the loop specifies a shared-environment effect, and shared environment is the component that behavior genetics has had the hardest time finding. In standard designs, the shared environment contribution to adult cognitive ability in Western samples shrinks toward zero. For personality traits including conscientiousness it is near zero at most ages. Siblings raised in the same home resemble each other on these traits at about the rate predicted by their genetic relatedness and little more. Adoptive siblings, who share the home and not the genes, correlate near zero as adults. If growing up with a married father transmitted self-command through the home environment, the designs that measure home environment should find it. They mostly do not.

The dissolution is available. Judith Rich Harris (1938-2018), in The Nurture Assumption, argued that the near-zero shared environment finding does not mean environment fails to socialize children. It means the socializing environment is the peer group. Children calibrate conduct to the group they expect to live among, and the calibration happens outside the family. From the standpoint of a twin design conducted within neighborhoods, peer influence loads onto the non-shared component, or vanishes into the residual, because siblings in the same home often occupy different peer positions and because the design cannot see variance that a whole community shares.

Harris’s account fits Wax’s framework better than Wax’s own account does. A normative regime operates at the level of a community. The pre-1960s architecture Wax describes worked because everyone in the neighborhood was following the same rule, which is what made following it cheap. That is a community-level variance component, and a twin study conducted inside a single normative environment measures nothing about it. Ask a twin design what fraction of variance in age at first intercourse is attributable to shared environment in Utah, and the answer tells you about differences among Utah families.

Shared environment estimates differ sharply by outcome. For measured intelligence and for personality traits, shared environment washes out. For behaviors like religiosity, political attitudes, smoking initiation, age at first intercourse, and fertility timing, shared environment persists into adulthood at levels that are not trivial. This is the structure Wax’s theory requires. Norms govern conduct, and conduct is the thing on which community-level environment continues to register.

Trait distribution may be substantially heritable, and the question of its cross-population structure may remain open, and neither fact touches the claim that a normative regime converts a given trait distribution into a given behavioral distribution. Wax’s argument is about a conversion. The origins question determines the ceiling on what environmental intervention might achieve.

Behavior geneticists have a name for what a strong normative regime does. Michael Shanahan and Scott Hofer call it social control, one of four types in the typology they set out in “Social Context in Gene-Environment Interactions: Retrospect and Prospect,” alongside triggering, compensation, and enhancement. Norms canalize genetically diverse people, they write, and as norms grow more effective and choices narrow, genetic differences carry less consequence. When a rule pushes everyone toward the same conduct regardless of disposition, dispositional variance stops appearing in behavior and the heritability of the outcome falls. Remove the rule and the outcome tracks the disposition. The same logic runs through the Scarr-Rowe finding, where heritability of cognitive ability comes out lower in low-socioeconomic-status American samples and shows up less consistently in European samples with stronger institutional floors.

The demographer J. Richard Udry (1928-2012) reached the same position from the other direction in “Biosocial Models of Low-Fertility Societies,” fourteen years before Wax wrote. The more freedom individuals hold over reproductive behavior, he argued, the more the variation in that behavior reflects biological differences between them.
Wax cites neither Udry nor Shanahan and Hofer. Her account of normative architecture arrives at a claim that demographers and behavior geneticists had already stated in their own idiom, and the two literatures have never met.

Where the origins question bites is on policy. If the trait distribution responds to environment, environmental intervention can compress it, and the pessimism about the post-deregulation equilibrium is overstated. If the distribution has a substantial heritable component that intervention cannot reach, the only arrangement that compensates for the differential is one that restores external rules, and the argument for restoration is arithmetic.

A paper that names the traits, correlates them with racial groups, and refuses to say where they come from leaves the reader to supply the missing term. Readers tend to supply the one that is convenient. The hostile reader concludes she means heredity and is hiding it. The friendly reader concludes she means heredity and is being brave about it. Both conclusions are inferences from a gap, and both are unfalsifiable, since she wrote nothing to check them against. Silence in a combustible field transfers authorship of the missing paragraph to whoever wants to write it.

The alternative she had available was to state the disjunction and show that her argument survives both branches. That paragraph runs about two hundred words. It says the origins of the trait distribution are contested. It says molecular methods have not settled the contest and may not for some time. It says the descriptive claim holds under either resolution, and that the policy implications diverge, with the environmental branch supporting intervention and the heritable branch supporting institutional restoration. Writing it would have cost her the accusation of hiding something and gained her the accusation of raising it. Whether that trade made sense in 2010 is a judgment about the field she was writing in rather than about the evidence, and the field has moved enough since that the calculation might come out differently now.

Nobody knows the cross-population structure of the traits Wax describes. The tools that could answer the question do not work across ancestry groups yet, and the inferential shortcut from within-group heritability is invalid. The within-population heritability of the traits is high and not in dispute. The shared-environment finding rules out the simplest family-transmission story and leaves community-level normative transmission standing, which is the story Wax needs and the one she should have told.

Her framework, stripped of the origins question, makes a prediction about cohort heritability. The reasoning is ordinary behavior genetics. When a rule carries everyone to the same conduct regardless of temperament, temperament stops appearing in the outcome. A man with a high discount rate and a man with a low one both marry at twenty-three, both stay, and both have their children inside the marriage, because the alternatives carry costs neither will pay. The dispositional variance sits there with nowhere to express. Heritability of the outcome runs low, and the community rule the siblings grew up under does the work. Remove the rule and the same two men diverge, because the outcome now tracks the disposition and nothing else is steering. Heritability rises.

The prediction has a literature, and it runs older than Wax’s paper.

Hans-Peter Kohler, Joseph Rodgers, and Kaare Christensen asked in “Is Fertility Behavior in Our Genes? Findings from a Danish Twin Study” whether genetic influence on fertility shifts across demographic regimes, and found it high for Danish women born around 1880, low through the middle of the century, and high again after 1955. They followed it with “Between Nurture and Nature,” and by 2003 Kohler and Rodgers were stating the argument outright: reduced social constraint and greater egalitarianism raise the relevance of genetically mediated differences. Felix Tropf and colleagues found the same pattern in British female twins born between 1919 and 1968, naming war and economic crisis as constraints that suppress genetic expression and “normative freedom” as what releases it.

The American version exists too. Daniel Briley, Paige Harden, and Elliot Tucker-Drob ran it on 933 twin pairs from the Midlife in the United States study, framed by the second demographic transition, in “Genotype by Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth.” Genetic influence on both outcomes was trivial for the 1920 to 1935 cohort and rose substantially for 1936 to 1955. That is the prediction, confirmed on American data, published five years after Wax wrote.

The third cohort is where the result stops being a confirmation and starts being an instrument. For twins born between 1956 and 1970, genetic influence on completed fertility persists, and genetic influence on age at first birth falls back, with shared environment returning. The model behind this is a diffusion curve rather than a release curve. Briley and colleagues cite Rogers on the diffusion of innovations in their first footnote, and the logic follows: when a new behavior becomes available, people differ in willingness to adopt it, those differences are partly heritable, and so genetic influence peaks during the transition and falls once the new behavior settles into a norm of its own. Old norm, low dispositional expression. Norm breaking, maximum differentiation. New norm, convergence.

A hump has consequences for anyone reading the number. Any given value of the additive component is consistent with two positions on the curve, early or late, and reading it requires knowing where the cohort sits in the transition. Deregulation does not raise heritability indefinitely. It raises it while the rule is contested and lowers it once a replacement rule is in place, which means a low estimate is evidence of a settled regime without telling you which regime.

Smoking supplies the same curve from a second direction. Jason Boardman, Casey Blalock, and Fred Pampel used the same MIDUS twins in “Trends in the Genetic Influences on Smoking,” estimating heritability of regular smoking year by year from 1922 to 1968. It runs high for those born in the early 1930s, collapses to zero for those born around 1942, climbs to a maximum for those born in 1954, and falls to zero again for those born in the mid-1960s. The 1942 minimum belongs to the cohort that was in its early twenties when the Surgeon General reported in 1964. The final decline belongs to the cohorts who came of age under clean-indoor-air laws. Boardman and colleagues distinguish three accounts of what moves the number, and only two of them are causal. Social control suppresses expression. Social trigger permits it. Social push, borrowed from Adrian Raine, changes how visible genetic differences are to the observer without changing how they operate, and they assign the entire 1935 to 1954 stretch to it. The estimate rose because social smokers quit after the Surgeon General and left the physiologically dependent behind, which is a change in who is being measured.

There is a further complication, and it is arithmetic. Heritability is a ratio. Constraint that closes the behavioral margin cuts the numerator. Constraint that homogenizes circumstances cuts the denominator, and the ratio rises. Gülüm Kosova, Mark Abney, and Carole Ober built a study on exactly that in “Heritability of Reproductive Fitness Traits in a Human Population,” choosing the Hutterites because communal life assures uniform and equal access to resources, and recovering significant heritabilities for reproductive traits in both sexes. A norm that dictates family size can suppress genetically influenced variation in desired family size. A norm that forbids contraception can expose genetically influenced variation in fecundity. Both are norms, and they move the estimate in opposite directions. Constraint compresses heritability only when it closes the margin through which the dispositional variance would otherwise reach the outcome.

None of which leaves the structural rivals where a first reading places them. It looks as though Wilson should predict stable heritability or rising shared environment, since wages and sex ratios fall on neighborhoods and families and siblings share both. That does not follow. A shock reaching both twins in a pair need not register as shared environment. Reliable contraception hands individuals control over reproduction, and if people differ heritably in discount rates, sexuality, conscientiousness, or desired family size, the technology raises the additive component for the same reason a moral collapse does. Udry’s model depends on that possibility. Kohler and Rodgers give female labor-force entry as another case. The decomposition registers that a constraint fell. It does not name the constraint.

Timing, geography, and race do separate the accounts. Akerlof, Yellen, and Katz put the break between 1965 and 1973 and predict a common break everywhere, because the technology arrived everywhere at once. Wilson puts it in deindustrialization, a decade later, concentrated in the labor markets that lost manufacturing and in the populations living in them. Those come apart on a date and a map. Geronimus comes apart the same way, since weathering ties early childbearing to local mortality and health schedules. Wax and Akerlof do not come apart at all here, since a moral collapse and a contraceptive revolution ran on the same clock and reached the same people.

One comparison does separate them. Populations that kept their own norm-producing institutions while the surrounding society shed its own hold the technology and the economy roughly constant and vary the norm. Boardman’s own sources show the pattern in another domain, with Judith Koopmans and colleagues and David Timberlake and colleagues finding genetic influence on tobacco muted or absent among people raised under strict religious prohibition. Any registry carrying religious affiliation can run the family-formation version, and that comparison, rather than the raw cohort trend, is what would discriminate a normative account from a technological one.

Two design constraints govern anyone who runs it. Family structure is not one phenotype. Matt McGue and David Lykken established genetic influence on divorce risk in 1992, Victor Jockin and colleagues traced part of it to heritable personality, and Beth Jerskey and colleagues then found in Vietnam-era twins that the genetic influences on marrying and the genetic influences on divorcing are largely distinct. Marriage timing, completed fertility, nonmarital birth, and dissolution need separate decompositions, and a result on one carries nothing to another. Hans Fredrik Sunde and Philipp Dierker have since argued from 353,210 Norwegian marriages that divorce is a couple-level outcome and that conventional twin models inflate what they attribute to individuals.

The shared environment component also behaves less obligingly than the framework suggests. A national norm experienced by every twin pair does not become shared environment because everyone shares it. If it holds constant within a cohort it contributes no variance at all. It shifts the mean, or suppresses the additive component, or interacts with it. Briley and colleagues report raw variance components rather than standardized proportions for this reason, and warn that the components need not sum to one.

Which leaves the gap that matters most. Every study named here runs on white, Nordic, or British samples. Briley is MIDUS. Boardman is MIDUS. Kohler is Danish, Tropf is British, Kosova is Hutterite, Jerskey is Vietnam-era veterans. The American argument among Wax, Wilson, Akerlof, Yellen, Katz, and Geronimus is centrally about a divergence between Black and white family structure, and a heritability estimate is a within-population number that says nothing about differences between groups in either direction. Minnesota, Virginia, Denmark, Sweden, and Australia cannot answer an American question about two populations. The sibling samples in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth can, across two cohorts, which is the structure Roland Fryer used for the wage decomposition. The precedent for the population half exists: a 2009 study of cohort differences in educational attainment among African American twins read Jim Crow as an external ceiling suppressing individual differences and predicted that removing the ceiling would show up as declining similarity within pairs. Nobody has run the family-formation version.

The Minnesota, Virginia, Swedish, Danish, and Australian registries hold cohorts on both sides of the break with marital and fertility histories attached, and they will answer the European version of the question. The American version requires the sibling samples, split by race, on marriage timing and nonmarital first birth rather than on completed fertility.

Udry and Shanahan and Hofer built the theory. Kohler and Briley and Tropf calibrated it on fertility, Boardman calibrated it on smoking, Kosova established what the ratio does when the environment is homogenized, and four decades of results show what the instrument can and cannot see. It has never been pointed at the outcomes the American argument turns on, in the populations that argument is about. The experiment does not need to be invented. It needs to be imported, and the importing is the harder half.

Notes

On Wax’s own record. The paper under discussion is Amy L. Wax, “Diverging Family Structure and ‘Rational’ Behavior: The Decline in Marriage as a Disorder of Choice,” University of Pennsylvania Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 10-17, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=1592424. The two footnote citations described above appear at notes 76 and 99 of that draft. The earlier statement of the demographic argument is “Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure,” 41 Family Law Quarterly 567 (2007). Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century (Hoover Institution Press, 2009) is the book where she walks through the exogenous explanations for the test score gap and declines the hereditarian step, at https://archive.org/details/racewrongsremedi0000waxa. The paper that shows the agnosticism doing positive work is “The Poverty of the Neuroscience of Poverty: Policy Payoff or False Promise?“, 57 Jurimetrics 239 (2017), at https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1711/ and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2888600. Her argument there turns on the point that imaging research cannot separate innate from environmental causes of brain characteristics, which she uses against interventionist optimism while asserting nothing about origins. “Educating the Disadvantaged,” National Affairs (Summer 2017), sits at https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/educating-the-disadvantaged. Her faculty listing, which still carries rational choice and family structure among works in progress, is at https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/awax/.

On the within-population findings. Eric Turkheimer, “Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and What They Mean,” 9 Current Directions in Psychological Science 160 (2000), states the two propositions the essay leans on: traits are heritable, and the effect of being raised in the same family runs smaller than the effect of genes. Journal version at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8721.00084, author copy at https://uva.theopenscholar.com/files/eric-turkheimer/files/three_laws_of_behavior_8.pdf. Turkheimer’s own reading of the laws differs sharply from the use hereditarian writers make of them, and his Substack is the place to see him say so. Christopher Chabris and colleagues added a fourth law in 2015, at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721415580430. For the heritability estimates and their rise with age, Robert Plomin and Ian Deary, “Genetics and Intelligence Differences: Five Special Findings,” Molecular Psychiatry (2014), at https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014105, and Thomas Bouchard’s account of the age gradient at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/wilson-effect-the-increase-in-heritability-of-iq-with-age/FF406CC4CF286D78AF72C9E7EF9B5E3F.

On the shared-environment problem and its resolution. Judith Rich Harris, “Where Is the Child’s Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development,” 102 Psychological Review 458 (1995), and The Nurture Assumption (Free Press, 1998), carry the argument that the socializing environment is the peer group. Harris is the least-cited figure in this dispute relative to her usefulness, largely because both camps read her as conceding to the other. On the interaction between socioeconomic position and heritability, see the Scarr-Rowe literature and the failure to replicate it outside the United States: Ken Hanscombe and colleagues, “Socioeconomic Status and Children’s Intelligence,” PLoS ONE (2012), at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3270016/. The Dickens and Flynn model of environmental multipliers, which explains how high heritability coexists with large environmental movement in population means, sits here.

On why the cross-population question stays open. The logical point is Richard Lewontin’s, most accessibly in his 1970 reply to Arthur Jensen in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. For the technical reason molecular methods cannot currently answer it, see Alicia Martin and colleagues, “Clinical Use of Current Polygenic Risk Scores May Exacerbate Health Disparities,” Nature Genetics (2019), at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-019-0379-x, with the open preprint at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/441261v3, and the companion survey of the field’s ancestry composition at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11112-0. More recent work shows prediction accuracy falling continuously along the ancestry continuum rather than in discrete population steps, at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06079-4, which further undercuts any procedure that compares group mean scores. A recent review of the open problems in portability is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68565-3. For the skeptical case stated at full strength, Jonathan Kaplan and colleagues, “Genes, Heritability, ‘Race’, and Intelligence,” Genes (2022), at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/13/2/346.

On the theory of normative constraint and genetic expression. Michael J. Shanahan and Scott M. Hofer, “Social Context in Gene-Environment Interactions: Retrospect and Prospect,” 60 Journals of Gerontology: Series B 65 (2005), at https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/60/Special_Issue_1/65/2965138, sets out the four ideal types, of which social control is the one Wax needs. J. Richard Udry, “Biosocial Models of Low-Fertility Societies,” 22 Population and Development Review 325 (1996), at https://doi.org/10.2307/2808017, states the demographic version and is the ancestor of everything in this literature that followed.

On the cohort-heritability test, which requires the most care. Hans-Peter Kohler, Joseph Lee Rodgers, and Kaare Christensen, “Is Fertility Behavior in Our Genes? Findings from a Danish Twin Study,” 25 Population and Development Review 253 (1999), and the same authors’ “Between Nurture and Nature: The Shifting Determinants of Female Fertility in Danish Twin Cohorts, 1870-1968,” 49 Social Biology 218 (2002), at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14652919/, report that genetic influence on female fertility runs high in cohorts born around 1880, falls through the middle of the twentieth century, and rises again for cohorts born after 1955. They tie the movement to changing socioeconomic and normative conditions rather than to normative deregulation as such. Daniel Briley and colleagues, “Genotype by Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth,” Behavior Genetics (2015), at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-014-9693-3, is the American version and the source of the diffusion model that turns the prediction into a hump. Felix Tropf and colleagues, “Genetic Influence on Age at First Birth of Female Twins Born in the UK, 1919-68,” 69 Population Studies 129 (2015), at https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2015.1056823, names normative freedom as the moderator. The Danish twin fertility design is at https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/38/1/29/170416/Behavior-genetic-modeling-of-human-fertility, and a two-registry treatment of completed fertility at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-016-9805-3.

On the analogy and its warnings. Jason D. Boardman, Casey L. Blalock, and Fred C. Pampel, “Trends in the Genetic Influences on Smoking,” 51 Journal of Health and Social Behavior 108 (2010), at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3158572/, is free in full and is the methodological template for anything anyone runs on family structure. Their social push category, borrowed from Adrian Raine, is the one that should worry anyone reading a heritability trend as evidence of normative change, since it describes an estimate moving because the composition of the measured population moved. Their religious-upbringing sources are Judith Koopmans and colleagues at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10857244/ and David Timberlake and colleagues at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16497606/. For the arithmetic point about the ratio, Gülüm Kosova, Mark Abney, and Carole Ober, “Heritability of Reproductive Fitness Traits in a Human Population,” 107 PNAS Suppl. 1, 1772 (2010), at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0906196106, which uses Hutterite uniformity as an instrument for detecting genetic variance rather than as a constraint suppressing it.

On family structure as several phenotypes. Matt McGue and David T. Lykken, “Genetic Influence on Risk of Divorce,” 3 Psychological Science 368 (1992); Victor Jockin, Matt McGue, and David T. Lykken, “Personality and Divorce: A Genetic Analysis,” 71 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 288 (1996); Beth A. Jerskey and colleagues, “Marriage and Divorce: A Genetic Perspective,” 49 Personality and Individual Differences 473 (2010), which finds the genetic influences on marrying and on divorcing largely distinct. Hans Fredrik Sunde and Philipp Dierker, “Are Spouses Similar in Divorce? Investigating Spousal Similarity in Couple-Shared Outcomes,” Twin Research and Human Genetics (2026), argues that couple-level outcomes and assortative mating inflate what conventional twin models attribute to individuals.

Anyone running the test might want to read Michael Rutter’s skeptical chapter in Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective (National Academies Press, 2003), at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK97281/, which argues that secular trends in heritability estimates have proved inconsistent across traits and countries and that the interpretive temptation runs ahead of the evidence. His example is the rise in heritability of educational attainment in Norway for males and not females over a period when opportunity widened for both. That objection applies to the argument advanced here with full force. Note also that the existing work covers fertility outcomes rather than marriage timing, marital dissolution, and childbearing outside marriage, and covers Denmark, Britain, and a largely white American sample rather than the two populations whose divergence the American argument is about. For the precedent on the population half, see “Education in Time: Cohort Differences in Educational Attainment in African-American Twins” (2009), at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2765648/, which runs the same design on Jim Crow.

Further reading. On the older quantitative-genetic critique, David Layzer, “Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology?“, Science (1974), at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.183.4131.1259, states the case against inference from heritability estimates in a form that most later criticism restates. On the demographic side of the family argument, Andrew Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round (2009), Charles Murray, Coming Apart (2012), Robert Putnam, Our Kids (2015), and Melissa Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege (2023), carry the descriptive picture forward from where Wax leaves it. Orlando Patterson’s writing on culture and agency, and William Julius Wilson’s account of the professional silence that followed the Moynihan report in the opening chapter of The Truly Disadvantaged (1987), supply the disciplinary context for the omission this essay examines.

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