Category: Teaching

Posted onEmpathy

The Data Is In: Performative Hardassery Is Not Good Teaching.

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It’s been fifteen months since I’ve updated this blog, and yet the tut-tutting discourse around so-called “trigger warnings” is still with us. And, like almost…

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Posted onTable-Thumping

The Summer of Magical Thinking

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What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester? This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a…

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Posted onNeoliberalism

Each Against All: Neoliberalism and Higher Education, Part 2

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[Click here to read Part One] In the 1970s, neoliberalism came into its own as a coherent ideological platform and political-economic policy toolkit. As politicians,…

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Posted onPolitics

How Is It “Being Silenced” When You Won’t Shut Up About It?

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A pernicious conspiracy against The Truth™ exists in higher education, riddled as it is with politically-correct snowflakes unable to reckon with the cold hard facts…

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Posted onAcademe

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

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[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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