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Paulo Freire and the chic cultural capital of academe
I’m on the committee of a graduate student just getting into Paulo Freire’s work, and that brings back memories. I remember reading Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) when I was sixteen, and it was an early, “Oh, I can read that” experience.
American Educational Research Association meeting
I’m in Montreal this week for the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, and it will be one of the odder conference visits I’ve ever had. I won’t attend a single paper session….
The subtleties of research ethics with children
Today comes the news that California Senator Barbara Boxer and Florida Senator Bill Nelson are holding up Stephen Johnson’s nomination as EPA chief because of the EPA’s Children’s Health Environmental Exposure Research Study in Jacksonville. Designed as a study of the effects of normal pesticide use on young children, it may now be used to […]
Blind reviews for search committees?
In a fascinating story about Stanley Fish’s successor as Arts and Sciences dean at UIC is a little nugget: the chemistry department is trying the first stage of search committee portfolio reviews blindly, after a staff member strips identifying information about names and institutions from the submitted material. I’m curious; what do you think?
Glad my plate is full
By Sherman Dorn on May 4, 2005
I thought I’d come to Chain Bookstore to redeem my free drink as a reward after my fillings and then get some early grading done, but I’m useless on grading thanks to the epinephrine that went with the anesthesia. (For those who are curious, he said that it’s a vasoconstrictor to delay the anesthesia’s dissipation.) […]
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