{"id":336,"date":"2006-02-19T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T14:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-02-19T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T14:48:02","slug":"what-if-the-problem-is-not-pedagogy-but-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/what-if-the-problem-is-not-pedagogy-but-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the problem is not pedagogy, but profession?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting conversation over at Steve’s Pedablogy site<\/a> on what enables risk, and why teaching is such a walled garden even inside the university.
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\nRodney Brooks<\/a> likes to take assumptions and negate them, so in that spirit and to play devil’s advocate, what if the problem is not that people aren’t thinking well about their teaching? What if the problem is that people aren’t thinking well about their professional work? Working on narrow topics and publishing things of interest to only a few could be a succinct definition of much of the blogosphere. What’s the difference? Why blog anyway? How do we get a “blogosphere” out of all the “b” blogs?<\/p>\n

I’d submit that the difference is the way in which it’s obvious that one-to-few or few-to-few communications over the Internet are still parts of the conversation. It’s obvious that the work we little bloggers are doing is part of something much larger. The apparatus of higher education has managed to obscure that truth about the professional work we do. We can’t even find that “something much larger” on our own campuses, or reflect it in our curriculum, or foster it in our interaction with colleagues, much less find a way to demonstrate it to the world.<\/p>\n

Unless we can find a way to demonstrate that “something much larger” to the public, why should we expect the public to offer support for our specialized expertise and labor? And why should we expect students to understand the point of their contact with us? It may be heresy to say this, but I worry that too much emphasis on pedagogy per se<\/em> addresses a symptom instead of the real illness(es).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting conversation over at Steve’s Pedablogy site on what enables risk, and why teaching is such a walled garden even inside the university. Rodney Brooks likes to take assumptions and negate them, so in that spirit and to play devil’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}