Mundane faculty sadism
I’m going to borrow a term from pop marital therapy author David Schnarch, compare it to sibling experiences and literary analysis, and then see if the principle applies to professional relationships in higher ed. To Schnarch, couples’ relationships are a pressure-cooker within which the individuals (should) develop. To Schnarch, this pressure-cooker environment is an inevitable by-product […]
Democracy, justice, and teaching
There’s been a fascinating discussion developing in response to Aaron Schutz’s review of Jeannie Oakes and John Rogers’s Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice (2006). Sometimes comment threads develop in a few hours. This one is still growing after a few months.