Though one might imagine that suggestions emerging from a preschool storytime
may not seem to be a likely source of wisdom for an adult audience, I find that
we often forget the importance
Hospitality [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#ElaBasArgWorHos] in the
classroom and digital pedagogical practices encourage participatory pedagogy
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/participant-pedagogy-a-digped-discussion/]
and collective action. This model of learning and teaching
“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
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
“There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to
open a book at all.” ~ Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of
Committees.”~ G K Chesterston
About two years ago circumstances reduced my full time job in a UK university
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,
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
How different would our education system be if we focused on learning for learning’s sake, rather than for the sake of tests, exams, and homework checks — if performance really mattered?
There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that there’s something
wrong with all of it.
AtInstructureCon 2012 [http://www.instructure.com/instructurecon], we noticed a
lot of hate being
Audience has been a critical concern during our first five months at work on
Hybrid Pedagogy. We realize the need to consciously expand our audience — to
consider institutions and colleagues outside of the
Intended to serve as a stop-motion camera for the torrent of information we get
from social media, Storify allows the user to arrange pieces of conversations to
construct a narrative. When we first
Encouraging learning is an act of subtle manipulation. When we enter a
classroom, we’re stepping onto a stage. This is true no matter how
student-centered our classroom is, because our students are
This is the first in a series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity] of
articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers
and scholars, but also as learners, composers,