“Digital pedagogy is becoming, for me, coterminous with critical pedagogy, given
the degree to which the digital can function both as a tool for and an obstacle
to liberation.”
~ Jesse Stommel, “Decoding Digital
Nothing enshrines an idea quite like printing it in a textbook. In fact, the
textbook is the ultimate canon: a fixed tome of knowledge, shared across
institutional boundaries, with the authority to dictate
It is not enough to write monographs. It is not enough to publish. Today,
scholars must understand what happens when our research is distributed, and we
must write, not for rarified audiences, but
I have colleagues who invoke “Best Practices” the way that evangelical
Christians quote the Bible: God has spoken. During these conversations, I am
tempted to say in a serious voice, “Best Practices dictate
“Literature can be our teacher as well as our object of investigation”
—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
To say that being the only African American woman professor at a small, liberal
arts college in the
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I don’t share the sheer outrage that some
adjunct professors are directing at the tenured ranks.
As teachers who consider the whole world a virtual classroom and community, many
of us sometimes mistakenly assume that if we create space for representing the
“voice” of the marginalized, all will be
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renew : in-, intensive pref.; in- + novāre, to make new (from novus, new). ~
adapted from OED online [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/innovate]
I
A bull that went blind during the monsoon forgets that the world is not always
green. — Nepalese proverb
Thanks largely to the advent of MOOCs, more scholars around the world are
engaged in
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].This peer-reviewed article was
simultaneously prepared as a keynote address for Re:Humanities 2014
[http://blogs.haverford.
Education cannot just be filling an empty brain, but must be as Paulo Freire
says in Pedagogy of the Oppressed
[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed/oKQMBAAAQBAJ],
“the means
Oppression is inherently spatial. Governments use biopolitical mechanisms such
as urban zoning and prisons to keep undesirable populations fixed in place;
institutions use office location to distinguish permanent from contingent
faculty; houses of
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
Writing the adjunct experience is its own genre now, having emerged from the
duress of countless contingent laborers who are tired of marginalization. We are
academe’s scapegoat. What I want now is
