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Public Scholars & Public Scholarship

In reading Jennifer’s first blog entry in our reflection on public scholarly acts I’m reminded how much our scholarly identities impact our what we do in the classroom as teachers. Although we have scholarship that discusses how and why students…

...Continued Continue Reading | November 20 2011 | Comments
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Public Learning & Identity

I want to start by thanking @rhetorjjb for her twitter post that kicked off the need to do this reflecting. @rhetorjjb and I have decided we want to explore this topic a bit more. Based on the topic itself, we decided…

...Continued Continue Reading | October 11 2011 | Comments
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What is the point of scholarly work if not to help others understand and remember it? First and foremost, I am a teacher! It’s my job, my calling, to help others recognize, recall, interpret, exemplify, classify, summarize, infer, compare, and explain themselves and the world around them.
Vonnegut’s comparison of doing and being via famous quotes - priceless!

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