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Posted onJanuary 29, 2019October 22, 2020History

The Fallout from Paradigm Shifts; or, Scaling Kuhn Up.

by Kevin Gannon3 Comments on The Fallout from Paradigm Shifts; or, Scaling Kuhn Up.

Earlier this week, a cool Twitter thread happened, started by @_Varsha_Venkat’s query to historians about any pivotal, paradigm-shifting (for them) books they’d read

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Posted onMay 15, 2018May 17, 2018Academe

Pedagogy is not a Weapon: Defending Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces

by Kevin Gannon4 Comments on Pedagogy is not a Weapon: Defending Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces

[CW: discussion of sexual assault, trauma] Ever since Socrates upbraided his followers in the Agora, there has been a strong tradition among educators to bitch…

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Posted onOctober 6, 2015Critical Pedagogy

There Are No Independent Variables: Pedagogy and the Dismantling of Structures

by Kevin Gannon2 Comments on There Are No Independent Variables: Pedagogy and the Dismantling of Structures

When I took the research and methods seminar in my undergraduate History major, one of our texts was E.H. Carr’s What Is History?, a profoundly important…

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Posted onApril 21, 2015civil war

The Case of the Missing Adjective: Writing and Choosing Whiteness

by Kevin Gannon17 Comments on The Case of the Missing Adjective: Writing and Choosing Whiteness

Consider the following sentences: “…learning absorbed the lives of southern youth prior to the Civil War in substantial ways.” “A belief in Manifest Destiny cut…

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