Marching in the Grand Rapids funeral for the death of the Middle Class. Saturday, 5 November 2011

- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


2012 Winter Semester Course Outlines and Reading and Writing Schedules available on course pages (links above)

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

Contemplative Teaching and Learning (Jossey-Bass)  See below

Forthcoming:
"Teaching in the Commercialized Community College" (Radical Teacher, Spring 2012)
"The End of the Community College English Profession" (TETYC, Dec 2012)
Book reviews in TETYC and Fourth Genre

Latest update: 16 January 2012

Meeting Henry Giroux at DePaul University