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Revisiting “The Banking Concept of Education”

Posted on September 12, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

One of the first pieces of pedagogical theory I ever read was Paolo Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education” from his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I was a first-year Master’s student preparing to teach my first class, a … Continue reading →

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“He speaks like a drunken man”

Posted on July 25, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

The title of this entry comes from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It is a line spoken by Herodias directed at Iokanaan, or John the Baptist. It is an important line, for it captures the hysteric, maddening quality of utterance in the … Continue reading →

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Why I teach and study Victorian literature

Posted on July 17, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

My students think they know Victorian literature. They have impressions of it as dull, as overly concerned with decorum, as fantasias of the upper-classes in elegantly appointed drawing rooms drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches. Few of my students who … Continue reading →

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