pedagogy
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Haibun 06Jul25: Reading, Authority, and Reason
When I was young, I thought books were keys to the vault of answers. If I read enough, deeply enough, I’d know what to think. I mistook tradition for commandment. Decades later, I sit among these same volumes—dog-eared, underlined, marked… Continue reading
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Whatification
First Monday evening class for Fall 2016, Intro to Philosophy. I am treating the afternoon class and the evening class as two very distinct iterations of the same material. For the evening class, like the earlier one, I started with… Continue reading
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Getting under way
First class for my 1:00pm iteration of Introduction to Philosophy on M – W – F. Continue reading
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Line – circle – motion
My pedagogy: I do not claim to know things that will make you more intelligent, more wealthy, or more satisfied. I do claim to have experiences in reading, working, and traveling that I enjoy passing along in exchange for your… Continue reading
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The Big (Soul) University
The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself… Continue reading
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Big Ideas for Little Kids
Philosophy is not usually part of a second-grade curriculum, yet this documentary accompanies a group of college students who lead a series of philosophy classes for six- and seven-year-olds. The second graders learn some of the basic rules for having… Continue reading
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten
Education is under attack worldwide. The report issued by the United Nations speaks to conditions in the most physically violent locales around the globe. We should pay close heed to these. Because they are the physical counterpart of the psychosocial… Continue reading
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain
In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading
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Suggestions – Rules – Advice –
10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage with Hints & Amendments by Sister Corita Kent “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.” RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then… Continue reading
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MOOC, Online Education and its future | Learner Weblog
Misunderstanding, lack of common “goals” among various institutions and professors, and differing interests in schools of education and pedagogy have all left people mixing MOOCs with online education. To me, this is only part of the “wicked problems” especially when disruptive… Continue reading
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Keeping the Humanities Vibrant
My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of… Continue reading
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Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?
You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that in its current form, the… Continue reading
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Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’ – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Karl Jaspers and a number of other professors gave radio lectures and then television lectures. I recall my great friend, Richard Owsley, telling me that while he studied at the… Continue reading
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unMonastery :: EdgeRyders
This is something I would like to experiment with doing here in the States. I have often thought that something based along the lines of a monastery, ashram, or sangha would do more good for locales than colleges or universities… Continue reading
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School text book: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A textbook used in one of Louisiana‘s voucher schools has a lot to say about the 1960s counterculture See on www.salon.com Related articles The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocalypse (keithwaynebrown.com) Getting rich off of schoolchildren… Continue reading
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Overcoming Sectarianism
Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicaliza-tion, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: As I rested today, I missed the opportunity to be out there exploring. T. S. Eliot eloquently spoke of this. I seek for and find when I explore the cyclical journey we call life.… Continue reading
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