> “It makes no more sense to wish for age than to fear it.” – Gloria Steinem
When I entered my Introduction to Women’s Studies class in the fall of 2014 and
saw
Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are
particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as
educators and inform their pedagogical capacity.
Recent library scholarship has introduced a
We are two critical pedagogues who are also faculty developers, trying to create
space for conversations interrogating dominant approaches to faculty
development.
Faculty developers support the growth and continuing development and evolution
of
“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from
the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from their
encounter in relation to an object
MOOCs and Critical Pedagogy are not obvious bedfellows. The hype around MOOCs has centered mostly on a brand of sage on the stage courseware at direct odds with Critical Pedagogy’s emphasis on learner agency.
I’m a feminist teacher of writing and literature of over 25 years and,
amazingly, I still love it. I love the transformative nature of critical
feminist pedagogy, the dialogic classes where meaning
“Ra-Ra Ah-Ah-Ah, Ga-Ga-Ooh-La-La, I want your bad romance.” — Lady Gaga, “Bad
Romance”
Do I really see myself teaching Lady Gaga next semester? Or should I stick to
teaching Mozart? Should the speakers ooze
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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
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
“‘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
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