I am too tired to have the prose come to me easily, but the recollections and connections do not stop coming to me. If I keep working on this text it will become a substantial piece. Venues for it besides the CHE could be Academe, IHE, Baton Rouge Advocate, maybe Profession. I am convinced these things … More Notes for still further revision
Paulo Freire is in this post if you read closely. Axé.
Here is the ponencia colectiva Arturo Serrano Plaja read at a momentuous 1937 congress, that Vallejo attended. It is a very interesting document, an incredibly interesting document, but I was looking for things by Arturo because I remember a poem of his that went something like this: España está hispanizada ¿Quién la deshispanizará? El deshispanizador que … More Spain, Hispanized
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
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
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
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
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?
I wrote: Later when I have time, I will try to consider methods of using my plan, or even a Boicean style plan, to address problems that do not have to do with the low level problems he addresses, which appear to be not liking to write, not having any experience writing, not being organized, … More When I say “reeducation,” one of the elements to which I refer is Boice
xdanne: Boice encourages not word count but “# of typed page equivalents” which are then charted in relation to “”# of hrs. spent writing”. You thus get a neat little productivity graph which becomes a writing goal in and of itself. I too dislike the dog-training aspect of behavioral approaches. I don’t want to tell … More An anti-Boicean dialogue with xdanne
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