Postcards of an Education
Jean-Luc Goddard’s 1963 agitprop film, Les Carabiniers, was a New Wave shaggy dog story. For most of the somewhat tedious film the two loutish protagonist commit a series of…
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July 6, 2020
Mitch Daniels, Purdue University, and the COVID-19 Calculus
This blog was initially inspired primarily by my sense that students and their learning had relatively little value in the decisions made in higher education. To capture this concern,…
June 1, 2020
Decoding On-Line Learning
Moving Beyond Pedagogical Triage in the Covid-19 Era In the last few months teachers around the world at all levels of education have been presented an unprecedented challenge. Facing the…
May 21, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Pedagogical Triage
In higher education, as in so many other areas of our lives, the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. At least in the short term the impossible has…
April 5, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Revolt of the College Teachers
[For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of…
January 20, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me.…
December 2, 2019
Tear Down This Wall! – Decoding K-16
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
November 12, 2019
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Dumb Questions?
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
October 16, 2019
Left Hand, Right Hand
In the two decades of my life between kindergarten and completing course work for my Ph.D., I had dedicated teachers from whom I learned a great deal. But I…
September 29, 2019
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Shame Factories of Academia
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
September 9, 2019