We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know

TitleWe Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Authors
AbstractWhat is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender and Women’s Studies curriculum that I’…
Notes'Annotations(12/31/2021, 1:56:08 PM)\n“But, and I want to take out a billboard that says this: managing feelings, particularly as it relates to various forms of injury IS NOT THE JOB OF THE TEACHER. As I tell my students over and over: your intuitions and feelings are what will lead you to original insight but they are not a substitute for thinking and working hard” (Kyla Wazana Tompkins, 2016, p. 5)\n“hey are the end of the psychic thread that you begin to pull at as you develop the ability to summarize and analyze the structures of thought, habits of mind, and analytic forms that undergird critical theory.” (Kyla Wazana Tompkins, 2016, p. 5)\n“We are going to move from theory to the world, and not back to you” (Kyla Wazana Tompkins, 2016, p. 5)\n\n - prerna.srigyan'
URLhttps://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/09/13/we-arent-here-to-learn-what-we-know-we-already-know/