After class the other day, one of you asked about how you refute the “college isn’t for everyone” argument. This new data goes a long way to refuting it. Colleges […]
Archive | April, 2015
How should we be in the classroom?
In our Adult Education classrooms, as is true to some degree in all of our classrooms, students use their bodies to express all sorts of things. One student hunches over and takes […]
Hunter College Intro to Theatre Map: Theatre Across New York City
Students in Hunter College’s Intro to Theatre course were assigned to see a performance of their choice and write a reflection on their experience. This map (still in progress) links […]
SHARING THE PLATFORM OF INSTRUCTION
Do you share the platform of instruction with your students? How comfortable are you in sharing this platform? What are your prohibitions in doing so? Are you afraid that they […]
Classroom Instruction: Ways of Knowing
As an educator, how well do you understand the Urban American school culture? By culture, I incorporate the many definitions used by Sewell (2005), culture as “learned behavior, an institutional […]
Mindfulness as a Legitimate Praxis in Teaching and Learning
The very rich, engaging and rewarding presentation given by Richard Lissemore, Ryan Donovan and Hilarie Ashton inspired me to revisit some articles that I read on ‘mindfulness.” ‘Mindfulness’ although not […]
Mentoring workshop, upcoming classes, final requirements: A Recap
Subject: Mentoring workshop, upcoming classes, final requirements: A Recap Hi everyone, Thanks, first of all, to Group Four for yet another incredibly rich, full, tantalizing, stimulating class. Second, thanks to […]
Designing Higher Ed from the Outside In–and Out Again
Yesterday, Group 4 tackled not just inner space but architecture, turning what has been called the most “vile classroom” at the GC into an interactive, multipurpose, lovely space. I wish […]
Higher Education Becomes Even More Unequal–and a Radical Proposal
Here’s an interesting blog: http://bryanalexander.org/2015/04/20/higher-education-becomes-even-more-unequal-and-a-major-proposal/ What do you think?
Upcoming Intellectual Publics Event with Saidiya Hartman and Ann Cvetkovich
Hi all, Just wanted to post about an upcoming event hosted by the new Intellectual Publics initiative, which promises to be outstanding. Ann Cvetkovich’s Depression, like Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love, […]
