Retiming college
Not much grants the illusion of linearity like bullet points, so here goes: I find Halberstam’s undisciplined zone of knowledge production truly aspirational. In some way, I don’t find it that hard because my mind doesn’t work in all that disciplined of a way. With a moment’s more reflection, I know that’s a woefully incorrect…
Order and chaos
My thoughts have been more unfocused than usual recently. I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. In honor of this unfocus, here’s some thinking on the work of order and chaos, and why I think these concepts come to matter in the study of higher education.
Extemporaneous thoughts about education and the future
The future is the only proper object of education. How do we engage it without becoming academic engineers?
Belongingness, precarity, swarm
Here goes a bunch of freewheeling, ordinary thoughts. Sense of belonging, at least in common parlance, is a misnomer. Surely sense of belonging is not something – a sense – that resides in individuals. Belonging is a force, a mark of relationships within an environment. To conceptualize or measure sense of belonging at the individual…
Things I want to type about in the year ahead
In no particular order, and with no promises of coherence:
Laura Smithers 