This post is a short piece I wrote in 2011 for a special issue of the journal Teacher Education and Practice on “Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Scholarship.” My own take is that research in education is not necessarily well positioned to enhance education; on the contrary, it often does more harm than good. See what … Continue reading Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research
This post is a piece I just wrote. I tried unsuccessfully to publish in five different venues and gave up, so I'm posting it here. I focus on an issue that I've been thinking about for quite a while: How to understand the core business model that governs American universities. The answer is in the … Continue reading Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degrees
This post is an essay of mine that was just published in a book -- Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less Be More? -- edited by Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe. An earlier version appeared in Aeon in 2018. Here's a PDF of the chapter. Here's the setup for the argument: The … Continue reading The Lust for Academic Fame
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about life as a professor. All of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy!
This post is a short piece I wrote in 2011 for a special issue of the journal Teacher Education and Practice on "Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Scholarship." My one take is that research in education is not necessarily well positioned to enhance education; on the contrary, it often does more harm than good. See … Continue reading Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about the nature of academic research. All of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy!
