What is it about?
It recounts an unusual academic career during which I too risks in studying new topics and helping to start new institutions. It could have gone dreadfully wrong but instead I became known worldwide as a pioneer of open and distance learning. The the reference in the title to a 'scholar gypsy' makes an analogy to Matthew Arnold's 19th century poem about an Oxford student who drops out and joins a gypsy band in the hope of finding new and important truths.
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Why is it important?
I hope that the article encourages readers to break with the orthodoxy and follow less-trodden paths, because which may lead them to more exciting and significant careers
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After writing over 400 'academic' publications it was fun to write a more autobiographical piece to show that career decisions which colleagues thought were crazy led to exciting and successful outcomes
John Daniel
Acsenda School of Management, Vancouver
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This page is a summary of: Reflections of a Scholar Gypsy, December 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004716117_025.
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