I’m still reading Tagg. He’s not giving me new information. As I pointed out in my previous blog–Tagg’s is progressive pedagogy: Dewey, Freire, Moffett, Judy,…
While reading John Tagg, The Learning Paradigm College, I have thought more about the essential mis-educating practices that encourage, as Tagg frames it, surface rather…
I’m keeping the syllabus conversation going. Below is an edited response to Bill Thelin, one of my good friends, who spends, I think, a fair…
On the WPA-l listserv, Kathleen Shine Cain asked for articles on writing for social justice. I think she has in mind a course teaching or encouraging…
I had a conversation yesterday with a colleague and good friend (a lot of these posts, I realize, are the consequence of conversations in which…
Below is a note that I sent to my students about our next essay: OK, here’s what I’m thinking about this next essay or re-vision…