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The ultimate ignorant school master? - February 17, 2024
One of our doctoral students, Ms. Mako Miura, recently challenged me with a question I had never entertained. We were…
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on the grounds of instruction into grammaticality - July 12, 2022
... scholars and other shamans might be as puzzled as two senior professors when they read the title of an…
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What is anyone to do about GameStop? Who knows? - February 5, 2021
Or On the ignorant in capitalistic action Like about everyone else I started the week of January 25, 2021, from…
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Transporting school into home - October 14, 2020
I rarely I find a New York Times analysis that echoes something I wrote. On October 1, 2020, Carina Chocano…
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Ignorant School Teachers - March 21, 2020
Rancière is altogether optimistic about “ignorant school masters” ([1987] 1999 ). He advocates for a radically “democratic,” non stultifying education…
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Educating into Corona, in life - March 20, 2020
In my case, and while on the road, about everything I have learned about the virus I learned through the…
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What is there to learn now, here, under maximum stress? (a problem for learning theory?) - June 1, 2018
Learning with others is, necessarily, a political matter. Thus my insistence on writing about "polities" of practice. Still, it remains…
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On hackathons, machines, and flamingos - September 26, 2017
Recently, Audrey Le successfully defended a most interesting dissertation about “hackathons.” Like me a while ago you may have no…
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On the importance of reading footnotes - April 17, 2017
Those who know my work know that I am a great admirer of the historian Lawrence Cremin whom I happily…
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On thriving children and the hegemony of psychology - April 12, 2017
And researchers who specialize in individuals will never understand humanity (or why psychology is hegemonic in America).
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