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Administrative Discourse Eliminates a Teaching Discourse
My last post was about the difference between an administrator and a teacher, and how easily those things elide into one another. After reading some comments on it,…
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Teacher or Administrator?
On the train headed to the Lafayette debates, sponsored by the French Embassy and GW in lovely Washington, D.C. A different sort of debate competition that I have…
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Embracing Esperanto as Debating Metaphor
For many years I have been trying to hammer out this book on metaphors for debate as an educational practice. Competitive debate is, of course, tied up in…
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Anniversary Reflection
It’s raining, but four years ago it was sunny when I watched my mom breathe for the last time. Now I’m sitting here looking at reciepts for pizza…
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Who is this Person? Are They Any Good?
I’m doing the tab for GW this weekend, and I regret it already. Tabbing makes me feel terrible on every level: I feel like I’m wasting my time,…
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Debating with Reservations, Part 2
A teacher is not someone who knows more than the student; A teacher is someone who knows differently than the student. It is a fallacy to believe that…
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