The work of teaching is hard. And much of the work is unexamined, exactly because the work is so precarious—because many teachers are not given the space or the support they need to improvise and experiment in their classes.
What does it mean to be a professional while also an academic? This collection is seeking narratives that balance scholarship with personal experience.
Interdisciplinarity comes from learners — their fields, their experiences, their ways of knowing. It is a dynamic process, and it is slower than we think.
If life inherently involves the pursuit of happiness, education should prepare students to face that overall challenge, not just the needs of a future job.
Cheryl E. Ball shares how she blends professional editing, modern publishing, and digital pedagogy to create meaningful courses beyond the classroom walls.
Chris Gilliard walks us through concerns he has about the state of online surveillance and dangers lurking behind asking students to work in online platforms.
Schools won't embrace education as the practice of freedom if it rocks the boat too much. How might we care for a student’s soul in a disruptive sense?
Education is, says Freire, an “inescapable concern.” No one can be left out of the work of critical digital pedagogy, both the effort of it and its ends.
Classrooms can be spaces where students are practicing self-determination rather than training to be authoritarian subjects. We first have to trust them.
