Mais où?

I will aim for the Journal of Curriculum and Instruction and New Political Science. This NPS article already cites me. Axé.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar

For many Americans, education is about feeding students certain factual information, then testing them to make sure they retain it. The higher they climb on the educational ladder, the more specialized that information becomes as we train them for their eventual professions. That makes sense. When you’ve got surgeons hovering over you, ready to mess … More Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Identity politics, students as customers, and academic freedom

If adjuncts and tenure-track professors are disempowered in relation to their students, the solution isn’t to attack students. . . . sneering at undergraduates with too many feelings or an unsuspecting woman who had the misfortune of tweeting about the biases of scientific research and discourse. Rather, it’s to focus on a university system that … More Identity politics, students as customers, and academic freedom

Bruce Cockburn

This is The trouble with normal, a 1981 song lyric I did not know. I notice that Cockburn had the same insight I did, then. Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic … More Bruce Cockburn

We should say this here

The UK’s universities can justifiably claim an outstanding international reputation, generating multiple direct and indirect benefits for society, and underpinning our core professions through training and education. Yet these attributes are being undermined and degraded from within and without, with innovation, creativity, originality and critical thought, as well as notions of social justice, being threatened … More We should say this here

Keywords for the age of austerity

Wellness User Team Synergy Sustainability Stakeholder Self-Starter Resilience Pivot Peaceful Protest Nimble Learning Outcomes Leadership Innovation Flexibility Failure Errors in Judgment Entrepreneur Engagement Dynamic Descent Into Violence Democracy Customer Creative Content Civility Choice Caudillo Branding Best Practices Accountability Read all about it. Axé.