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Darwin and Eliot and History* | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. The Chastising Professor →. Darwin and Eliot and History*. February 22, 2013. My very smart academic friend, Sam Cohen, recently wrote at length. On the Origins of Species. And that alone, many argue, was enough to revolutionize the century. But, as even the most cursory glance suggests, 1859 was a banner year. It saw the publication of multiple, field-changing books on medical advances. Of George Eliot’s first novel,. Sam po...
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In defense of making students study things they don’t always want to | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. Pencils in the Lunchroom. Of Academic Idealism →. In defense of making students study things they don’t always want to. February 6, 2013. I will be the first to admit that the student-as-consumer model of education that is touted by some university administrators drives me batty. This is. Often implies that students know best what they want and need to learn, and it is our job to deliver precisely what students want. I use th...
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Experiment | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. Pencils in the Lunchroom →. January 9, 2013. 8221; is not an uncommon question from students) would yield writing that is more engaged, more creative, more pliable in its willingness to wander thoughtfully through complex ideas. But, oh, I hope this blogging project yields so much more than that. This entry was posted in Senior Seminar. Pencils in the Lunchroom →. March 10, 2013 at 4:59 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Every t...
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Of Academic Idealism | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. In defense of making students study things they don’t always want to. Darwin and Eliot and History* →. February 16, 2013. I want my students to be brilliant. I want them to make observations I haven’t thought of, and write sentences that make me smile just because they are so articulate, and draw connections that illuminate literary history. And in between those flashes of brilliance, I want them to be competent. In defense o...
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The Chastising Professor | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. Darwin and Eliot and History*. 8220;Yes, but what will you DO with that English major? 8221; →. March 11, 2013. Class would teach them a lesson about the mutual responsibilities of the college learning environment. But before I could get to that nicely formed extrapolation of her pedagogical reasoning, I found myself catching my breath in amazed horror (admiring awe? At the notion of. Also: almost certainly likely to backfire.
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What if Those Books are “not for us”? | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. 8220;Yes, but what will you DO with that English major? What if Those Books are “not for us”? May 11, 2015. That notion–not that owning physical texts and having the time to read them is a luxury, but that merely having. It became a conversation about students who were made to feel, on a pretty fundamental level, that certain books were simply not for them. In which she explored (in part) the degree to which the curriculum at...
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State of the Humanities | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. State of the Humanities. Scores of articles have appeared in the last few years about the “crisis” in humanities education. This crisis is various defined in terms of:. Job prospects for graduates with bachelor’s degrees in humanities fields (presumed to be abysmal);. Persistent ivory-tower elitism and/or esotericism;. Critical public perceptions of the humanities as irrelevant;. Both, or neither, may be true as generalities.
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“Yes, but what will you DO with that English major?” | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. What if Those Books are “not for us”? 8220;Yes, but what will you DO with that English major? April 2, 2015. Towards the end of this spring’s Senior Seminar, we took up this question. I had given the class a 2013 column by Michael Bérubé. To read as a jumping off point, with this as perhaps its most pointed bit:. After all, who needs another 50-page honors project on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire? But it did occur to me th...
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Andrea Kaston Tange | Curiouser and Curiouser
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If it intruigues me, I just might write about it here. State of the Humanities. Author Archives: Andrea Kaston Tange. What if Those Books are “not for us”? May 11, 2015. This past semester, an extremely bright student in my senior seminar recounted a story of how her high school debate team, which was very successful, found itself towards the end of the season facing debates against kids from swank private … Continue reading →. 8220;Yes, but what will you DO with that English major? April 2, 2015. My ver...
