Adjunct professors get poverty-level wages. Should their pay quintuple? The SEIU is organizing adjunct professors together around the future goal of $15,000 per course. Improving adjunct working conditions is long overdue. A side note worth noting is that part of the reason I went to Whitman was their expectation that tenured faculty actually teach.
Tag: teaching
Every teacher must be a history teacher
I would propose here that every teacher must be a history teacher. To teach, for example, what we know about biology today without also teaching what we once knew, or thought we knew, is to reduce knowledge to a mere consumer product. It is to deprive students of a sense of the meaning of what we know, and of how we know. To teach about the atom without Democritus, to teach about electricity without Faraday, to teach about political science without Aristotle or Machiavelli, to teach about music without Haydn, is to refuse our students access to The Great Conversation. It is to deny them knowledge of their roots, about which no other social institution is at present concerned.
Neil Postman – Technopoly.
Not for Teacher. Solid review of Dana Goldstein’s new book The Teacher Wars. It’s interesting to think about what a fundamentally different educational system would look like.
The joys of doing so
We so quickly forget that people, especially children, will not willingly do what we teach them unless they are shown the joys of doing so.
Frank Chimero – The Shape of Design.