Useful advice from a fellow graduate student about sharing your interests

Amusing article in the Chronicle, particularly for folks like me who did graduate work in the humanities. What do you think the buzzwords for higher education students would be?

Hope Amid Disappointment

This is the article about the removal of anticipated funding for community colleges from the health care bill that was mentioned in our discussion last week.

Article related to research methods

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Schon on epistomology

In our discussion last night, we touched on Donald Schon’s distinction between problems that can be addressed through “scientific” inquiry and problems that are sufficient complex and situated that they require a different epistemology that acknowledges that knowledge can be drawn from and embedded within professional practice. In an excellent article on learning communities, K. Patricia Cross, a venerable figure in the fields of Adult and Higher Education, explicates this distinction in a bit more depth in the section on philosophy. It’s certainly worth a look if you have time.

Darren