This morning I was grading work for a 2-credit, half-semester course I teach called ClusterRead More
Tag: pedagogy
Generous Thinking Now
“We’re in a bad time for everybody. There are very few models as to ourRead More
Poor. Queer. Studies.
Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I haveRead More
When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in aRead More
MLA 2020: “(Against) The Syllabus as an Instrument of Cruelty”
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “TheRead More
Assignment: Low-Tech Research
Here’s an assignment I recently developed and tested out on a group of students andRead More
Cruelty-Free Syllabi
This Inside Higher Edarticle about a particularly punishing course syllabus is extreme, but many college professors haveRead More
Why They Can’t Write by John Warner
1. For a couple years now, I’ve made it a point to read John Warner’sRead More
New Educations
1. I survived high school by reading books about education. My mother worked at theRead More