'Wokery', 'safe word' and 'forever chemical' added to the Oxford English Dictionary | Books
The OED’s latest update features new terms related to politics, sex, technology and the environment
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On college campuses, humanities are in a bind
The university where I teach is becoming obsessed with numbers — which can’t possibly describe the value of open-ended inquiry.
Source: bostonglobe.com
'In the age of AI, putting creativity at the heart of education is more important than ever'
The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children
Source: theartnewspaper.com
DeSantis as Gradgrind | Dissident Voice
Florida’s Governor DeSantis educational scheme that students need to learn the facts and nothing but the facts is likely to make teaching and learning in Florida more challenging than ever before. DeSantis’ “fact only” pedagogy mirrors that of Thomas Gradgrind, a character in Dickens’ Hard Times who sustained the Victorian status quo by teaching students
Source: dissidentvoice.org
<p>The novelist targeted the absurdities and self-congratulation of utilitarian philosophers, the forerunners of the tech industry's "effective altruism," in his 1854 "Hard Times." </p>
Source: historynewsnetwork.org