This post is the transcript of an interview I did with Jon-Ryan Maloney for his blog Cerebral Conversations. Here's a link to the original. It's a discussion about the emergent nature of the American system of higher education, which draws from my book, A Perfect Mess. Issues we cover include: How to justify public investment … Continue reading The Emergent University — An Interview
This post contains all of the material for the doctoral proseminar — Introduction to Big Issues in the Field of Education — that I taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Education for the last four years of my time there. The aim of this class is to give first-year doctoral students in education a … Continue reading Doctoral Proseminar: An Introduction to Big Issues in the Field of Education
This post is the text of a lecture I gave in 2013 at the annual meeting of the John Dewey Society. It was published the following year in the Society's journal, Education and Culture. Here's a link to the published version. The story I tell here is not a philosophical … Continue reading College: What Is It Good For?
