Henry Giroux
30/10/2013
Resistance is no longer an option, it is a necessity. That is the last line of a very good essay you should read slowly. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Category: What Is A Scholar?
Science news today
25/10/2013
Science is finished, said the scientist I talked to today. The word implies critique, but it is now taken to mean production and profit. Science not oriented in those directions will not be done again. This makes teaching very painful, he said. Students go into biology because they know they can make things to sell. … More Science news today
Los puntos negros de la academia
23/10/2013
Otro tema que el estudio del FCCT revela es la pérdida de solidaridad entre colegas y el surgimiento del individualismo como valor dominante entre los investigadores. Esto se debe en buena medida a la exacerbación del elitismo y del sentido de privilegio particularmente en las universidades con la aceptación de puntismo, que ha generado una … More Los puntos negros de la academia
Academy Fight Song
22/10/2013
“There is zero solidarity in a meritocracy, even a fake one, as the anthropologist Sarah Kendzior demonstrates in a recent series of hard-hitting articles on the adjunct situation. Just about everyone in academia believes that they were the smartest kid in their class, the one with the good grades and the awesome test scores. They believe, by … More Academy Fight Song
Felix Krull
21/10/2013
Paul de Man was a con man or worse. Never having been an acolyte I am unaffected, but it is still fun. #OccupyHE. Axé.
I wanted to say it on Facebook, but they know me there
20/10/2013
What is so awful about teaching beginning Spanish is not having the power to do anything interesting with it. If I were in power I would have innovative programs such as conversation partners outside of class, more structured grammar exercises, and greatly stepped-up cultural programming. But SLA is not my job or focus, either … … More I wanted to say it on Facebook, but they know me there
El mestizaje como tótem y tabú
19/10/2013
Eso. #OccupyHE. Axé.
…endless academic advice…
19/10/2013
Perhaps it is because of being from the west and meditating on the ocean. I like and have balance and calm, which is not laziness. People from New England are brash, loud, crass, immature, and anxious, so they have much harder lives than I do. Perhaps I have been on strike all these years, against … More …endless academic advice…
Not to forget
18/10/2013
I must rewrite/meld together my two posts for Remaking the University, together with the part they thought was too undeveloped, and submit it to The Nation. People in summer wanted me to send to NYT or WSJ but word limits there are not right, and it turns out that Nation readers are as deluded about … More Not to forget
Advice to new faculty
15/10/2013
Be confident, put your own best interests first, and above all, do not fret. At the same time, show no weakness. I do not mean be perfect, I mean show no weakness. What new faculty get away with when they are men, however, truly amazes me. Axé.
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