Illustration accompanying "Teaching in the Commercialized Community College" in Radical Teacher (Spring 2012)

Cover of Contemplative Teaching and Learning. Jossey-Bass, 2010.

- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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Fall Semester 2012:
*English 110: College Writing 1 (Section 14896) Mon/Wed. 11:00am-12:20pm
*English 110: College Writing 1 (Section 14900) Tues/Thur 11:00am-12:20pm
Texts:  Contemporary & Classic Arguments (Bedford/St Martins)
The Thinking Life (PM Forni)
*English 209: Study of the Novel (Section 15815) Mon/Wed. 12:30 - 2:20pm
Focus of course will be on the contemporary American novel
See "More" Tab: English 209: The Novel for list of novels
*English 214: Literary Interpretation (Section 14957) Tues/Thurs 9:00am - 10:50am
Texts: Critical Theory Today
The Great Gatsby

Summer 2012 Office hours: 
Monday: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tuesday, 8:00am - 9:00am
Wednesday, 8:00am - 9:00am
and by appointment
and by saying "Keith, I need to meet with you."
Consultation hour online at Krollofficehours@gmail.com: Sunday, 10:00pm - 11:00pm

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In the twenty years since my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand these stakes, and to see that the liberal arts cliche about "teaching you how to think" was actually shorthand for a very deep and important truth.  "Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose how you construct meaning from experience.  Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you be totally hosed.
David Foster Wallace, This Is Water (Commencement Speech at Kenyon College, 2005)

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS:

http://www.truthout.org/what-i-wish-jill-biden-would-talk-about-respect-americas-community-colleges/1302937200

Contemplative Teaching and Learning (Jossey-Bass)  

Review of Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild  by Tom Montgomery Fate 
Fourth Genre (Spring 2012)  

Review of Gateway to Opportunity? A History of the Community College in the United States, by J.M. Beach  TETYC 39.3 (March 2012)

Forthcoming:
"Teaching in the Commercialized Community College" (Radical Teacher, Spring 2012)

"The End of the Community College English Profession" (TETYC, Dec 2012)


Latest update: 18 May 2012

Meeting Henry Giroux at Depaul University, April 2011.

Marching in the Funeral for the Middle Class, Grand Rapids, November 2011