Critical Pedagogy
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Breaking Binary: Facebook and Teachable Moments
Alterity CFP
I was in my car, pulling into the driveway after picking up some takeout. The radio was tuned to NPR, but I wasn’t paying that close of attention. I was exhausted after
Culture, Education, and Difference: Negotiating a Pedagogy of Shared Experience
Alterity CFP
“To the naked eye, I may seem normal just like another student or individual; however, behind the mask, I am constantly reminded that I am different from everybody else. I am not sure
An Encounter with Pedagogical (H)alterity
Alterity CFP
I am stuck with the following story — not only with it, but by it. My decision to articulate it is always marked by haltings and hesitations, whether I’m inscribing it here or
On Being a Double Agent
Community
When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English building,
Cracking Open the Curriculum
Critical Pedagogy
“‘I hate it when you talk like this . . .’ ‘I merely observe that this is a quantum Universe and, as such, what happens is neither random nor determined.There are potentialities and any third
We May Need to Amputate: MOOCs, Resistance, #FutureEd
Contingency
The ability or inability of a group or culture to progress is in direct relationship to the proliferation of aphorism within it. General statements of fact and abbreviations of great wisdom are misleading
Intersectionality in the Classroom: My Experience Teaching at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Gender
Academic Labor
I may have created a racist. I am an adjunct instructor at a large, public university in a rural area of the country. Given the media attention surrounding the death of Margaret Mary
The Pleasures, the Perils, and the Pursuit of Pedagogical Intimacy
Alterity CFP
Intimacy lacks a satisfying definition. It is, according to the New American Oxford Dictionary, “a close familiarity of friendship; a private atmosphere; or an intimate act (especially sex).” To be intimate with someone
An Open Letter to My Students
Critical Pedagogy
The following is a letter to my first- and second-year music theory and aural skills students at The University of Colorado–Boulder. This is my second semester at CU, and the music students
Listening for Student Voices
Critical Pedagogy
Teachers don’t teach; instructors don’t really instruct. The lecture-based course fell out of favor years ago, and we know today to bringfront and center [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Pedagogies_
Social Action and the Status Quo: Bravery in First Year Composition
Critical Pedagogy
Lee Skallerup Bessette and Jesse Stommel [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Contingency_and_Higher_Education.html#sthash.sHQKzfrw.dpuf] note the real need for bravery in higher education, paying special attention to
Learning from Early Childhood Education: Higher Ed and the Process of Becoming
Critical Pedagogy
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.On my luckier days, I am gifted a few invisible moments at pick-up time before my son or one of his
Pedagogies of Scale
Participant Pedagogy
From all the jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap— Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn’t keep They storm the Earth and stun the Air, A Mob of solid Bliss— Alas—that
What We Talk About When We Talk About Students
Critical Pedagogy
“Certainly anybody who has taught at the postsecondary level has had students who regard school as an inconvenience and lead soap-opera lives, but fortunately those students are not the norm. However, for Mr.