{"id":3176,"date":"2012-09-23T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T03:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloomsight.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/23\/the-academic\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T03:05:45","slug":"the-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/2012\/09\/23\/the-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"informing my teaching philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly, it deforms their thinking about themselves and their work [ ]&#8230; we alienate them from their own inner lives.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty often complain that students have no regard for the gifts of insight and understanding that are the true payoff of education&#8211; they care only about short- term outcomes in the real world, &#8220;will this major get me a job?&#8221; &#8220;How will this assignment be useful in &#8216;real&#8217; life?<\/p>\n<p>But those are [&#8230;] merely the questions they have been taught to ask&#8230; by an academic culture that distrusts and devalues inner reality. Of course our students are cynical about the inner outcomes of education: we teach them that the subjective self is irrelevant and even unreal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Palmer Parker,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">The Courage to Teach<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly, it deforms their thinking about themselves and their work [ ]&#8230; we alienate them from their own inner lives. Faculty often complain that students have no regard for the gifts of insight and understanding that are the true payoff of education&#8211; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4827,233,122710,57787,2273,4826],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-courage","tag-education","tag-educator","tag-passion","tag-students","tag-teaching-philosophy","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}