Play is the Companion of Scholarship
To put it simply, just as healthy children play, so good scholars must too. And play must not be reserved just for weekends or vacation, but integrated into the way we think about our work.
critical pedagogy
A collection of 19 posts
Cacophony: Open Ed, Digital Pedagogy Lab, and the Challenge of Education Conferences
We need to critically examine all of our assumptions about conferences. How they are run. Who leads them. What kind of learning should happen there?
Shame; or, a response to the writers of the anti-Stonewall open letter in the Times
Academic freedom should not bind us to our beliefs, but should free us to explore potential new futures, new cultural realities, and to join in a production of tomorrow.
To Go Far Enough
The predation of the edtech industry only works if we don’t lift our heads to see it, raise our hands to change it, stand in its way.
The Production of Tomorrow
There are incontrovertible facts which should not be considered from inside the shelter of ideas, hypotheses. Poverty, racism, hunger, transphobia. There are incontrovertible facts which require action, not discussion.
The Habitus of Critical Imagination
It is urgent that we have teachers. It is urgent that we have teachers with great imaginations. It’s urgent that we have teachers who can see in their students the potential for something startling, something unlikely.