the academy is clearly challenged/insulted/confused by anything that does not fit its mold. this is even more extreme than the indigenous/human capital theory divide.
Claire Fontaine's List: the_academy
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Control of academic discourse is challenged by the read/write web. Anyone can publish now, about anything they like, in any style they choose. But the academy still has the credentialing job. For how long? I wonder. We’re publishing our own research, and linking directly to the evidence, every day.
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May 13, 08
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Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education is an academic forum for the study
of teaching and pedagogy that focuses on the relationship between education and
its socio-cultural context. Drawing upon a variety of contextualizing disciplines
including cultural studies, curriculum theorizing, feminist studies, the social foun-
dations of education, critical pedagogy, multi/interculturalism, queer theory, and
symbolic interactionism, Taboo is grounded on the notion of “radical contextual-
ization.” The journal encourages papers from a wide range of contributors who
work within these general areas. As its title suggests, Taboo seeks compelling and
contro-versial submissions.
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May 14, 08
The project promotes research in Critical Pedagogy, and brings together local and international educators. We are committed to continuing the global development of Critical Pedagogy and to highlighting its relevance with marginalized and indigenous peoples.
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May 14, 08
Whereas syntagmatic analysis studies the 'surface structure' of a text, paradigmatic analysis seeks to identify the various paradigms (or pre-existing sets of signifiers) which underlie the manifest content of texts.
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May 15, 08
I am an independent scholar living in
New York. A long time ago, I studied
economics at Harvard and sociology at
Berkeley, and I've taught at Berkeley,
Princeton, Columbia, the New School,
and NYU. With Jeff Goodwin, I edited
Contexts Magazine from 2005 to 2007.
In September 2007 I joined the faculty of
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May 15, 08
William B. Helmreich is Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College and also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. His specialty areas are race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, risk behavior, sociology of New York City, urban sociology, consumer behavior, and market research.
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May 15, 08
The Graduate Center logo is generally limited to use for official Graduate Center–related activities.
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According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human emancipation, “to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them”
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Instead, they have claimed that social inquiry ought to combine rather than separate the poles of philosophy and the social sciences: explanation and understanding, structure and agency, regularity and normativity.
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Jun 18, 08
Five graduate students in Dr. Jim Scheurich’s Introduction to Systems of Human Inquiry chose to create this web site as a reflection on critical theory.
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