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Assoc. Professor of #Literature at the University of Houston. Home base in #18thCentury, #LitStudies, #BritishLit, #LitHistory, #cynicism, #NegativePoliticalEmotions. First book: Making of Modern Cynicism (University of Virginia Press, 2007) https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793. Current book and DH project, a study of the year 1771, as experienced in 4 British cities (London, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Kingston, Jamaica). Also tiptoeing into #DH and #Genre.

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djvanness , to academicchatter
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Heartbreaking article about selling out its future. Land grant universities tap into deep reserves of talent that are shut out of elite private schools. They played a critical role in the development of the US into a 20th century superpower. Now, we run universities like money-making enterprises - selling cheap products at inflated prices and wonder why the public questions our value. Shame on Gordon Gee and all like him. @academicchatter https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/an-academic-transformation-takes-on-the-math-department

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@djvanness @academicchatter This is the biggest story in HE for this century & it’s gone mostly unremarked

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@djvanness @academicchatter Instead we get dozens of anti-woke op-eds; press has completely failed on this story

leifhammer , to histodons
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Long shot. I’m not a historian of pedagogy, but I’m trying to trace the idea of children being predisposed/inclined (natural abilities) towards certain subjects. For instance, Latin, some thinkers say there’s no point forcing children disinclined towards Latin to spend a lot of time on Latin, but instead let them focus on what they’re inclined towards. What is the history of this idea in pedagogy? When and where does it appear first?

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@leifhammer @ianrogers @ASECS @histodons Most 18c discussions cited Locke’s Thoughts on Education, & afterwards Rousseau’s Emile

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@leifhammer @ianrogers @ASECS @histodons educational reformers used those figures to argue against the traditional Latinate rhetorical training of children

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@leifhammer @ASECS @histodons this is explicit in Rousseau

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