Tag: higher education
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We’re Doomed
I just saw an English professor post on Facebook that taking students to the theater “Solves nothing,” but is a “nice distraction from things.” We are doomed if English professors have given up on the political, social, and psychological transformations that theater provides. I think we need to force people to read Kenneth Burke.
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An Argument
The most valuable things for me in college were reading books and discussing them (or listening to the professor talk about them). The other valuable thing was being in clubs, meeting people and making relationships. I don’t think either of these are possible any longer. Students are on campus a minimal amount of time due…
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The Biggest Problem for Universities are Students
The biggest problem in teaching right now is students. Not the people in the classroom who have paid (or someone paid) for them to be there, but the idea or conception of student itself. The notion of “students” as distinct from “teacher” is obvious but there are deeper implications here, such as student as different…
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The Reason that Debating is as Important to Education as Writing
“We are all teachers of writing,” is not only a good principle of education, or a good mantra of focus for teachers overwhelmed my the irrelevant minutae of state requirements and Common Core, but it is also a political statement – it’s the phrase of victory of rhetoric and composition, who conquered the educational world…
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A Course Description for a Class About Argumentation
A friend of mine clued me into a new program called Gitbook, which is sort of like a blog, but more of a private journal/documentation site. I signed up for one, but not sure if I am going to use it. It might be a great place to keep notes on the classes I’m currently…
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Bad Teaching, Bad Graduate Student Mentoring, Bad Pedagogy
There really isn’t such a thing as “graduate student pedagogy,” but I thought I would write about it anyway. I’m always hopeful about it, but I know why it doesn’t exist: People who want to teach graduate students don’t understand how teaching works, they aren’t interested in thinking or talking about teaching, and they also…
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COVID 19 isn’t killing the University, bad Stories Are
It seems that what COVID 19 won’t eliminate in terms of higher education, Google will. The recent announcement that Google will offer certificate training in technology jobs is not surprising. What is scary about the recent announcement is that Google will accept certificate training – basically those “badges” on Linked In – as the equivalent…
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