Category: Books
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Fiction as Philosophy
This is based off of a short twitter thread. Jay Dragon had a great twitter post the other day: is there a term for when the particular conditions of a fantasy/fictional setting set up a particular philosophy? like how jack saint describes Sky High or how warhammer 40k’s setting self-justifies the imperium https://twitter.com/jdragsky/status/1584229756656300032 It’s something […]
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Thoughts on Invisible Boy
Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443463935/invisible-boy/ As I was writing this I realized I wanted to do two things. I wanted to give a review and I also wanted to reflect on how I experienced the book. So it’s two posts in one now. Feel free to just read one or the other. Full disclosure, […]
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Book Review of “The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching”
A snippet from my review posted at the Canadian Journal of Higher Education In my classes I try to explain to second year comput-ing students that their technical skills are only one part of what they need to succeed. Many jobs are like that, requiring both discipline or field specific skills and trans-ferable or soft […]
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Review: Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
This was originally posted at SA-Exchange, but the site has since shut down. Sandra D. Styres 2017 book Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education: Philosophies of Iethi’nihsténha Ohwentsia’kékha (land) is a key addition to the literature around understanding core concepts in Indigenous philosophies of education. The audience of this book is academics who want […]