Paulo Freire
09/05/2013
Paulo Freire is in this post if you read closely. Axé.
Category: Banes
Things to do
07/05/2013
Learn all of Shakespeare. Start talking that way and remember many good quotations and their contexts. Get into the administration of the university and comment upon it in early modern English, using the quotations as well. Lily-livered boy! … My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. I think, but dare not speak. Axé.
Coisas que não vou fazer mais
06/05/2013
At the top of the list of things I am not going to try to do any more is cutting corners on teaching. I do not like the phrase cut corners anyway, it is one of those Pollyannaish phrases from Home Economics, and I have heard far too much about the importance of doing it … More Coisas que não vou fazer mais
Un diálogo importantísimo entre expertas
06/05/2013
Coldhearted Scientist: “Free writing” is just stewing and will only ruin your thought process unless you have already decided what you are doing. Until such time as your first line comes to you unannounced, and you know what the content of your last paragraph is going to be, you are much better off just meditating … More Un diálogo importantísimo entre expertas
On the origins of the “free writing” cult
05/05/2013
As we know, I am against free writing. I favor recreational or nonacademic writing, not free writing, for practice, and research notes and abstracts, not rambling “prewriting” to gather my thoughts. I became aware of free writing as a requirement too late, and I have never learned to use it — I find it exhausting … More On the origins of the “free writing” cult
El texto, escrito, jamás será vencido
05/05/2013
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More El texto, escrito, jamás será vencido
America’s Medicated Kids
04/05/2013
Axé.
Resisting consumerism, or, I will fill my tooth
04/05/2013
That LaBlanca Dapper One-Piece Striped Maillot is now out in size 6 and more sizes are sure to go. I should not buy a thing but it fits and I wonder, should I take one before my size is out? I was hoping to get one at an end of summer sale, but there may … More Resisting consumerism, or, I will fill my tooth
How inflammatory is this?
03/05/2013
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More How inflammatory is this?
That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
03/05/2013
It is from 1940. I am told that it therefore: (a) lacks modernity (it is old, so it must be antiquated), (b) is unnecessary (we all believe in these principles, so there is no need to write them down), and at the same time (c) is unaffordable (back in the thriving economy of the 1930s … More That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
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