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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A short genealogy of critical pedagogy, tracing the traditions Paulo Freire assembled and the later critics who kept his argument open rather than finished.
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.
Three traditions people use interchangeably and should not, read through the Doctrine of Discovery, Indigenous sovereignty, and what decolonization actually names.