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.
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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.
Find a Place You Trust: Sister Corita Kent’s Ten Rules as a Scholar’s Rule of Life
A pop artist’s classroom list, read as working conditions for doctoral writing: experiment, production over perfection, and keeping the maker away from the editor.
Answering the Call: Conference Boards, Journal Announcements, and the Profile You Build First
Where calls for papers actually circulate in the humanities, and why an hour spent building a scholarly profile now saves a week of scrambling later.
Brushing Off the Dust: Best Practice as Embodied Wisdom Rather Than Procedure
Most people hear “best practice” and picture a downloadable checklist; the phrase is better used for the situated judgment skilled practitioners cannot quite put into words.
Whole People in the Room: bell hooks and Engaged Pedagogy
How bell hooks joins Freire to Black feminist thought and engaged Buddhism, and why care without conflict is not what she meant by teaching to transgress.
Four Rivers into Angicos: Critical Pedagogy Before and Beyond Freire
A short genealogy of critical pedagogy, tracing the traditions Paulo Freire assembled and the later critics who kept his argument open rather than finished.
Who Is Allowed to Know: Banking, Problem-Posing, and the Reconstruction of Authority
Freire’s famous contrast is not lecture versus discussion but a fight over who counts as a knower, and what happens to authority once expertise stops claiming infallibility.