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Category Archives: education
Help Stop Crippling Budget Cuts
Yesterday we learned of Florida State senator JD Alexander’s proposed budget, which would cut USF’s state funding by 58%. Today I am asking all my readers to consider the following articles: Tampa Bay Times USF’s Official Response If so moved, … Continue reading
Education in Ruins; a War of Nerves
I’ve talked about my love for Bill Reading’s The University in Ruins on this blog before. Today I came across a disturbing news item on Facebook that made me think of Reading’s warning, a warning echoed by Mark C. Taylor … Continue reading
Posted in burke, education, enlightenment, mark-c-taylor, politics, readings, university-in-ruins
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“Unschooling” and David Weinberger
Today a student shared a piece appearing over at the Washington post on education, focusing on debates over class sizes. The piece details two general approaches to education–the first teacher driven, the second student driven. This second approach the article … Continue reading
Posted in education, pedagogy, weinberger
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Teaching a Philosophy of Life
Today’s snippet comes from a student’s paper defending the value of his liberal arts major. One of the questions I posed this semester, while reading Academically Adrift and Not For Profit was whether Universities’ missions included teaching values, or whether … Continue reading
Posted in academically-adrift, education, ethics, nussbaum
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Insane Job Add
Blogora has a link to The Philosophy Smoker’s discussion of a crazy philosophy job add. Two things: I can’t wait until we all bow down before work with corporate sponsors. Are visiting associate positions even real?
Posted in corporate-university, education, nussbaum
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Its Crap
Today I learned that a friend from grad school–a dedicated high school teacher–lost his job yesterday, along with about 80 other teachers, when his town voted against a tax increase. To echo David Harvey’s conclusion to his RSAnimate talk, “its … Continue reading
Aaron Schwartz on education
Aaron Schwartz has a short piece today (“Individuals in a World of Science”) on what I consider a rhetorical problem–finding an acceptable balance between individual (agency) and synthesized (agency). This seemed to be the driving question at a number of … Continue reading
Posted in education, schwartz, standardization
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Help Save the National Writing Project
David Beard called attention to the killing of the Striving Readers and National Writing Project over on the Blogora today. I repost an email posted by David: David Beard, Federal legislation for Striving Readers and the National Writing Project passed … Continue reading
Let Me Tell You a Story
Me (reading Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition) Rowan: “What are you doing daddy?” Me: “I’m reading a book about why people go to school.” Rowan: “Oh.” Me: “Why do you go to school?” Rowan: “I go to school to BE QUIET!” Casey’s … Continue reading
Ulmer Exercise: Term Extensions
Today in class we are working on two exercises from Ulmer’s Internet Invention; the first of which is his Term Extensions exercise. Using the history of the term “culture” as a model, select a different craft (other than agriculture) and … Continue reading