Category: Education
Teaching Short Stories in Writing Classes
| May 23, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Teaching |
Last week, we talked about the benefits of teaching poetry in literature-based writing courses. I explained that, in my writing classes at the University of Georgia, I incorporate four major genres of literature, and I began to make the argument that a semester of literary study can be deeply beneficial for students who are learning…
Teaching Poetry in Literature-Based Writing Courses
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Teaching |
This post begins a four part series that explores literature-based writing classes. In this series, we’ll explore the concept of literature-based writing courses and how we, as writing teachers, can use literature in our composition courses to teach writing. In order to gain a full perspective on this discussion, I’m going to break our exploration…
Buy Your Very Own Ohio Adjunct!
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics |
You, too, can own your very own adjunct. All you have to do is move to Ohio and become a university administrator. Yes, folks, that’s all it takes and then you’ll be able to trade people like property. Ohio adjuncts live to serve you. They will do anything you tell them. And they cost next…
The Cascading Labor Market of Underemployment
| May 2, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Graduate School, Teaching, Work |
Tomorrow, when the monthly unemployment numbers come out, we’ll learn that the underemployment and unemployment rates remain relatively high. Big surprise there. According to the latest Freakonomics podcast on NPR’s Marketplace, there’s a new theory for why the high unemployment rate persists. Apparently, we’re getting hit with the side effects of a trend that began over a…
Conspicuous Consumption in Education
| April 18, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Work |
As consumers, we’re often willing to pay more for something due to its perceived value than we are for its tangible value. The value this purchase confers upon us as the consumer, in this case, is greater than the value of the currency used to purchase it. In this type of exchange, often referred to…
The Teacher-Run School: Coming to a City Near You
| April 15, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Teaching, Work |
This idea of the “teacher-run school” has been popping up lately and I’m liking it. In our weekly newsletter, #EdFriday, we featured a Pittsburgh educational cooperative that’s bypassing the high cost of learning by reducing wasteful overhead and expensive administrators. And just this morning I read an article about another potential teacher-run school being considered…
If This, Then That: The “Quit Your Job” Edition
| April 11, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Work |
If you don’t make enough money to buy groceries and put gas in your car, then quit your job. If your student loan payment is more than a fourth of your monthly income, then quit your job. If you’ve been making the exact same salary for the past decade, then quit your job. If you…
You Can’t Be Anything You Want to Be
| April 1, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Work, Writing |
You can’t be anything you want to be. Most of us grew up hearing a repetitive mantra: “You can be anything you want to be.” All through my childhood I can remember being told this in school by teacher after teacher. Even as a kid, I was skeptical of it. By the time I reached…
Teaching Without a Plan
| March 28, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Writing |
Teaching without a plan makes the classroom exciting and a little dangerous. In a good way. Dangerous because it’s a bit of a gamble. You never quite know for sure what will happen. Sometimes the house wins and you go back to your office and close the door, wondering what the hell just happened. These…
Dear Adjuncts: If You Don’t Like it, Change it.
| March 21, 2013 | Posted by Hazel M. under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Work |
Sometimes I wonder if adjunct professors aren’t just banging their heads against a brick wall. This past year, the adjunct labor battle has been covered at least cursorily by almost every major news outlet in the country, but will anything actually change? My fellow writer at Order of Education, Josh Boldt, has been heavily involved…
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