The Good Enough Professor

Saving the humanities, one undergraduate at a time.

14 August 2014

The Pedagogy of Confusion

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www,dailymail,co.uk Never mind the feedback we get from students, confusion can be a good thing, according to recent pedagogical researc...
30 July 2014

Refinancing the Mortgage on the Academy's Soul

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Image from http://www.fhmtg.com/ How's this for a tasty morsel of righteous indignation?  As reported by Eric Hoover at the Chronicl...
25 July 2014

Acad Men; or, Entrepreneurial in All the Wrong Places

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This right here is why education is not customer service, as described by a math professor in an op-ed piece for the New York Times : Wi...
22 July 2014

The Wrong Problem

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Nothing jolts me out of the midsummer shallows like lots of smart people linking to the same misguided solution to the wrong problem .   Did...
01 July 2014

The Absence on the Horizon

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Photo from http://www.mnh.si.edu/highlight/riola/ This post, for once, isn't about academia.  At least, not directly. When I was a...
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28 June 2014

The Tombstones of Education

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Were I the Queen of Higher Education, I would banish all college textbooks from my Queendom. Books, proper books could stay: anything that...
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23 June 2014

Learn Local! (more on ASU and Starbucks)

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If any local Starbucks baristas happen to be reading this blog and thinking about starting college in the next year, I crunched the numbers ...
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