One of the things I like about this book is that it says teaching takes time, especially with new courses. It tells new faculty not to fault themselves if all their time is going to teaching. Then it tells you how to take research time back. This is realistic. Before I started quailing to the … More Further appreciation for the Compleat Academic
I am taking the readings and marking them up in red — a sentence in English to summarize the point of each paragraph. I am also hyperlinking the references to famous people and events the students will not have heard of to definitions and encyclopedia entries. I am PDFing these documents and loading them up … More A teaching activity I do not think I should be doing
Santa Barbara, California, from Stearns Wharf yesterday. One of the things the Brazilians kept telling me was that I had never seen an ocean or a palm tree, but I had gotten there from here. It is where I learned Portuguese, in fact. Axé.
What is is about the Freyre apologists? 1. Arrogance: they think they are an enlightened elite and everyone else is unsubtle. 2. Argument by authority: they are exceptionalists, and because of their identity they have special knowledge nobody else can have. 3. Apologetics: they have excuses for everything. 4. Projection, projective identification, or something like these: “You are an X, therefore you … More On authoritarian behavior
I like formation theory, but it is apparently criticized from the point of view of systemic racism theory. Denise da Silva is not satisfied with it because, she says, it still treats race as a thing even though the intention is the opposite. Faegin’s work looks good. He is one of my tribe: he says … More Criticism of racial formation theory
A friend back home took this picture today, and I would like to be meditating like that man. In winter the ocean looks golden when the sun is low. Here is Chapman’s Homer, upon looking into which Keats felt like Balboa or as he said, stout Cortez upon first staring at the Pacific, “Silent, upon … More Balboa, or stout Cortez
My culture course is not as challenging as the version of it being given by the Spanish Professor, but the students are still having a hard time. That is probably because, as was revealed today in a study, a majority of courses at my institution lack sufficient rigor. My course imitates a course given at … More Have you seen this book?
→ The post of the day is from Feminéma, on salaries and negotiation, very important. → The post beautiful award for today goes to Jonathan, on poetry, theory, and poetics — what a relief it is to read that in lieu of the news. I had planned to spend this day on teaching activities, and … More What I mean, #2
…about spending time on teaching. Unlike everyone else, I do not spend enough time up front and it always means I spend more time later. Giving out assignments designed for people who have skills my students don’t, assignments that are easier to write because they do not break things down into steps and smaller steps, … More What I mean, #1
Perhaps I am not a coldhearted scientist, but a fascinated theorist. I really do not know what to do about this name question. Now that I do not think about Reeducation all my literary ideas, the ones I could see float by but could not catch, are flooding in. I cannot keep up physically, but … More Fascinated theorist
