Published Works
Two works spanning fifty years of thought — from the university lecture hall to the frontiers of human knowledge.
Donald Bligh · 1971
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When Donald Bligh published this book in 1971, university teaching was rarely examined, let alone questioned. His central argument — that the lecture, as commonly practised, is one of the least effective methods of education — was radical. It remains so.
Drawing on a formidable range of empirical research, Bligh asks what students actually learn from lectures, how much they retain, and what conditions are necessary for genuine understanding. His conclusions challenged an entire profession to rethink its practices.
"Still unrivalled in its field more than forty years after first publication."
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Donald Bligh · Coming Soon
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This is the book Donald Bligh has spent a lifetime preparing to write. Born of a long, private intellectual quest, Explaining Everything! takes an aerial view of human knowledge — examining how ideas from different disciplines relate, conflict, and ultimately converge.
It opens a contemporary neuroscientific perspective on old philosophical problems. It explores the methodological conflicts between science and religion, arts and science, fact and feeling. And it does so through the lens of a single life spent in restless, rigorous pursuit of the truth.
"An outcome never previously expressed from a 70-year, lonely, silent quest."
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Method dictates the relevance of evidence — and consequently any theory based on that evidence.
— Donald Bligh, the insight that shaped a lifetime
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