@jpelonga.bsky.social and I were very pleased to be interviewed for one of these podcasts (#4) by Gareth Wiltshire about our book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Have you listened to our 'Studies in Critical Realism' podcasts? Gareth Wiltshire interviews the authors of books in the series. Find them all here:

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Authentic leadership and critical realism: what’s authentic and real?

BIO: Dr Anthony Thorpe is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Roehampton, London, where he previously led the PhD and professional doctorate programmes, and est...

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Very grateful to @crnetwork.bsky.social and specifically Gareth Wiltshire for this podcast, which @jpelonga.bsky.social and I really enjoyed recording. Some things emerge in this conversation that aren't in the book!

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have you heard our Critical Realist podcast series? #4 is now online, with Gareth Wiltshire interviewing @anthonythorpe.bsky.social and @jpelonga.bsky.social about their new book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism'

Vol 25 #1 of Journal of Critical Realism is now online! Including papers by Stine Harboe, Marc Bosward, Zeynep Ceren Henriques Correia, reviews of Ash's book on ethics and Slade-Cafferel's on Cambridge social ontology, and part 2 of Jamie Morgan's interview with Ted Benton ...

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Very grateful for Prof Richard Niesche's review of Educational Leadership and Critical Realism (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) in REAL dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/real/... Register free for online book launch 5 Feb www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... @jpelonga.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social #Leadership

Research in Educational Administration and Leadership » Submission » Book Review: Educational Leadership and Critical Realism by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo

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Prof Priscilla Alderson and A level student Harry Hubbard have made a series of 4 short videos introducing Critical Realism for A level students: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Critical Realism for A level students - YouTube

In these four short videos, Professor Priscilla Alderson and A level student Harry Hubbard introduce the critical realist approach to the social sciences.

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In our webinar anthonythorpe.bsky.social and jpelonga.bsky.social will talk about their recent book, 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with responses from helengunter.bsky.social and Lakshman Wimalasena. February 5th, 2:30 to 4pm GMT. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Educational Leadership and Critical Realism

Adopting a critical realist approach to educational leadership, this book shows how applied theory can contribute to the development of mechanisms allowing for the effective leadership of organisation...

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

Book Launch: Educational Leadership and Critical Realism

Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo talk about their recently released book, Educational Leadership and Critical Realism

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a new blog post by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo about their recent book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/11/05/e...

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

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

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

Learn about recent developments in critical realism in Japan in our latest blog post, from Hazuki Kajiwara: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/08/28/c...

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a blog post from Aristide Bertrand about the CSO's new bibliography of Margaret Archer's work: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/09/17/n...

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

'Navigating the “crossroads”: Critical realism as the middle path in critical social work research' - new paper in the Journal of Social Work by @sandyrao.bsky.social et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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

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

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'The false memory controversy: a critical realist clarification' by David Pilgrim www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you miss our webinar on Karin Zotzmann's new book 'Codes of Corruption'? Or was it so good you want to hear it again? You're in luck! You can watch it again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YY...

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

Critical Realism Network@crnetwork.bsky.social · 2y ago

In their new open access paper 'Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal', Catherine Hastings, Karen Sheppard & Angela Davenport use the idea of threshold concepts to investigate how to get to grips with critical realism for the first time.

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

I am Captcha: "ghost" students and the AI machine (opinion)

Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI.

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

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism@serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

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

Rountable: judgemental rationality in the critical realist project

The article is a lightly edited transcript of a digital roundtable discussion. The participants were invited based on their prior work on critical realism and epistemology. The roundtable discussio...

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