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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

Of Margins, Refuge, and Struggle

April 13, 2019

This post began as a reflection on some ideas that Robin DeRosa offered in one part of her recent keynote address for the AMICAL Conference

Lessons for Higher Ed from the Survival of Independent Bookstores

March 24, 2019

Another day, another report of an independent bookstore … doing pretty well. After some apocalyptic years, indie bookstores have been having something of a resurgence.

The “Textbooks” Misnomer

March 8, 2019

The other day I explained to a student that the “cc” field in emails is a holdover from the days of typewriters, when a “carbon

What Price Academic Books?

February 24, 2019

Years ago, Amazon included bookmarks with their orders, and one of the bookmarks offered a loose translation of Erasmas: “When I get a little money

Methods of Life

February 18, 2019

from The Education of John Dewey: A Biography by Jay Martin: A child in Dewey’s school was instantly a member of a cooperative commonwealth. Learning and creating knowledge

Matthew Cheney

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For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)

This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)

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