I clearly do not know myself at all. A student whose pedagogical project I am supervising says I have a strong interest in pedagogy. I have always denied this, originally out of the fear of being designated for a pink collar job, but I see his point. This is quite interesting. Perhaps I have not … More Station Break
A. I was taught that in academia, you had to do things halfheartedly to survive. You must just walk through teaching, since you will not get credit for it; you must write a great deal, but always acceptably bland things, so as to have a form and type of production conventional enough to pass; you … More Full On
In a long term prediction 22 months ago, Stiglitz told listeners of the Alex Jones show that he believed a global economic crash would occur within 2 years. With major financial institutions now folding every week, others touting mergers just to stay afloat and stocks continually plummeting on a daily basis it seems that prediction … More Joseph Stiglitz
I decided to earn a Ph.D. the day I learned this degree existed. That took place before I started kindergarten. Thus it was that my academic career and my full acquisition of formal language began almost simultaneously. My recurrent question then was whether thought preceded language or whether, on the other hand, language informed thought … More First Choice
My roof is leaking. Since Gustav, who dislodged several of my shingles, it has rained steadily and hard. Now there is water running down an interior wall, coming from the attic. After Katrina my insurance deductible for wind related damage in named storms was raised to $2,980. Ave Maria. This, however, is the kind of … More Latest News. On the Palins. On Language Teaching. On Storms
My culture shock is acute and may never leave me. In Peru, for instance, we were concerned with our own beauty, whereas here I am concerned with the beauty of my house. There are obvious explanations for this shift but I think the best explanation is less obvious: here it actually is within the reach … More Ostranenie
The owner of the bus company HORNA, in whose vehicle I was riding when it hit a truck and then crashed into a car, said that he had no way of controlling whether or not the drivers had accidents. He was therefore not responsible for anything that happened, so that it was not his duty … More Yet Another Coda
Is there really something sinister about Santiago de Chuco, or am I merely too bourgeois to easily handle so many close encounters with the fourth world as I have been having lately? I could write a long narration about this expedition. Details would include: * riding slowly through Quiruvilca, where Vallejo worked for a while … More Ciliado arrecife
I have at last read The Grass is Singing which is brilliant and impactante, epoch making for many reasons. Of all books mentioned in this post, this is the one most worth discussing. I will therefore discuss it least. I have also been reading The Poisonwood Bible, which is a good book although Kingsolver is … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Doris Lessing
I My exact location is Trujillo, La Libertad. I am staying outside the historical centre in a hotel designed for businessmen on small budgets. This strategic choice is based on a hotel choosing technique I developed for Mexico. You have to put up with a boring modern building in a boring modern district, but on … More Your Tour Guide Re-Speaks
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