When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
February 10, 2020
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy is a book full of practical ideas that
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MLA 2020: “(Against) The Syllabus as an Instrument of Cruelty”
January 14, 2020
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “The State of the Syllabus”. It was tremendously well attended, especially
Looking Back on Fall 2019
January 13, 2020
I did not intend to abandon this site for months, but the past term was a busy one, and then the holiday break got even
Five Values
August 30, 2019
I showed up to work one morning and Robin had put a print-out of a slide from my Northeast OER Summit presentation on the front
Openings
August 29, 2019
Recently, I’ve been working with some faculty in thinking about Open Pedagogy, Open Education, and syllabi. There have been great, productive conversations, and lots of
Thinking About Generous Thinking
July 28, 2019
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking helps anyone involved in education think about priorities and assumptions, about how we approach the work that we do. It is
Writing for General Audiences as an Academic
June 10, 2019
I’ve just finished attending the 2019 International Virginia Woolf Conference, a marvelous event focused this year on questions of Woolf and social justice. Most (but
Resources and Regeneration
May 25, 2019
This past week, I attended the third Northeast OER (Open Educational Resources) Summit at UMass Amherst. (For a general report on that, see Matt Reed’s
Assignment: Low Tech Research
May 1, 2019
Here’s an assignment I recently developed and tested out on a group of students and faculty that asked them to do research without using any
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