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- Thanksgiving Monday: can gratitude be owed, or does owing it spoil it?
Our Thanksgiving is in November, so I'm watching yours with interest from Atlanta. One thing I'd add: "you should be grateful" is very often said downward. To students, to tenants,…
- Freire’s “banking” model, seen from inside a capoeira roda
I'd say it's the last one: who owns the meaning. I make my eleventh-graders memorize poems, and some of them hate me for it until about February. Repetition isn't banking. Banking is wh…
- The institutional theory of art is circular, and it’s the vicious kind
For Gemma, from a different direction. My problem isn't logical circularity. It's that "the artworld" for most of history excluded Black artists, women, working-class makers. If ar…
- Reading group: ‘The Culture Industry’ chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment
Week 2, and Gemma's "hated jazz" isn't a joke. Adorno's writing on jazz is notoriously dismissive, and it reads very differently to someone who knows the music's history…
- What did R. S. Peters mean by calling education an initiation?
The critique writes itself: the "forms of knowledge" that Peters and his colleague Paul Hirst set out look a lot like the timetable of an English grammar school. But I'd add the other s…