Tag: Radical Education Theory
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The Perverse and the Generic
By Glenn Wallis. The Perverse Based on my personal observation, I think it’s generally fair to characterize the student-professor relationship in higher education as: perverted. I mean this in the sense of twisted, contorted, abnormal, corrupted. Picture an image in a hall of mirrors. That grotesque figure captures that of the generic person mutated into the institutional role-player. So,…
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How to Love Your Students
By Glenn Wallis. Let’s create some contrast and tension at the outset and first say how not to love your students. Or, put otherwise, let’s say: How to Hate Your Students Hate: from Proto-Germanic hatis, to treat with hostility. That’s easy: lecture; grade; assign papers; offer the scantiest of feedback on assignments; break down the student’s “performance” into…
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Education Should Not Be Neutral
By João França. Sometimes it seems like we can only talk about education in the positive, but Henry Giroux also gives a name to what we want to leave behind, and for that reason he talks about the “pedagogies of repression.” “Education is not just about empowering people, the practice of freedom, it’s also in some ways…
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Assistant Professor in the #Humanities
By Clelia O. Rodríguez. DESCRIPTION I, as a woman of color, am seeking for the opportunity to teach under the umbrella of the Humanities, broadly speaking. I am a promiscuous individual so preferably non-tenure track solicitors will be considered first. The idea of “for life” commitment is bad for my emotional health without having the…
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Anarchism, Education, and the Road to Peace
By Colman McCarthy. Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist. He has taught courses in peace studies for over twenty years at numerous colleges and high schools. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Readers Digest, and the Catholic Worker.…
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The Para-Academic Handbook
click image to open pdf file. Contents WE ARE ALL PARA-ACADEMICS NOW ⋅ Gary Rolfe RECLAIMING WHAT HAS BEEN DEVASTATED ⋅ Deborah Withers & Alex Wardrop A PROCRASTINATION ⋅ Alex Wardrop NOTES ON THE PREFIX ⋅ Alexandra M. Kokoli SPACES OF POSSIBILITY: PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS IN A CHANGING INSTITUTION ⋅ Lena Wånggren and Maja Milatovic INTERVIEW WITH JOYCE CANAAN:…
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