Wisdom That Has Entered the Body: de Kock and the Doctorate in Professional Practice
A reading of de Kock’s Embodied Wisdom, and what changes when a doctoral program treats a practitioner’s working life as the ground of inquiry.
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From Concern to Contribution: Designing an Actionable Practice-Based Dissertation
De Kock’s five movements turn a professional frustration into a defined problem, a disciplined inquiry, and something a community can actually use.
The Solitary Road Is a Myth: Communal Knowledge Formation and the Ecology of a Doctorate
Why de Kock counts community as part of rigor, what contribution means outside a discipline, and what judgment still requires of us in an age of capable tools.
Naming the Good That Was Wounded: Lynn White’s Charge and Four Ways of Doing Ecotheology
A walk through the accusation that started the field, the four families of theological answer it provoked, and a test you can run on your own work.
What Can a Body Do: Disability Studies as a Method of Analysis
Disability studies is not the study of disabled people. It is a way of auditing what our institutions, theories, and methods assume about bodies and minds.
Punch Cards and Aquinas: Digital Humanities as a Theoretical Disposition
A Jesuit priest, an IBM contract, and millions of words of Aquinas: how digital humanities became less a set of tools than an argument about interpretation.
The Spiral and the Microphone: Dialogue, Conscientization, and Praxis
Freire’s three famous terms work as one cycle rather than three definitions, and the cycle fails whenever conversation is invited but nothing it produces can change anything.
No Field for What She Knows: Cybernetic Capitalism and the Critique of Best Practice
Metrics, checklists, and dashboards steer practice by feedback, and Jan Overwijk’s category of the incommunicable names the expert judgment those instruments can neither see nor protect.
Neither Resource Nor Refuge: Carl Cassegård and the Dialectic of Nature
A critical theory of nature reads capital, ecology, and society in a single frame, refusing both the spreadsheet’s forest and the postcard’s wilderness.
Facially Neutral: Critical Race Theory and the Question of Whose Practice Counts
A best practice is structurally a facially neutral rule, and Critical Race Theory supplies two disciplined instruments for auditing what such a rule quietly encodes.
The End of Your Own Banking: Freire, Praxis, and Producing Knowledge Instead of Consuming It
Why Freire’s contrast between banking and problem-posing education is a claim about who gets to make knowledge, and what that means for professional practice.
Prompt and Deposit: Critical Pedagogy After the Machine
A synthesis of the tradition after Freire, and a test for whether generative systems become objects of verification or a new and more fluent form of banking.