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Category Archives: Rhetoric and teaching
Teaching Online
My “Pedagogies of Reading” seminar this quarter is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays from 5:30-9:20. I have never found four-hour evening seminars to be productive, either as a teacher or a student. By the time we begin, I have been … Continue reading
Songwriting versus Teaching
My daughter and I were having a discussion about which changed more lives, songwriting or teaching? Good teaching has a pyramid-like effect, especially if you teach prospective teachers. Your students go out and teach others, who may end up teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Music and Guitar, Rhetoric and teaching
Tagged Bob Dylan, kindergarten, literacy
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First Meeting
The first meeting of “Pedagogies of Reading” went well, at least in my view. No one complained about the reading load, all the assignments were accepted without groaning or moaning, and students participated in discussions with some engagement and enthusiasm. … Continue reading
New Course
For me it’s a new year, a new quarter, and a new course. I spent much of the break designing a graduate seminar I haven’t taught before, “Pedagogies of Reading.” These days the campus bookstore insists that you order the … Continue reading
Sophistic Rhetoric and “Little Pink Houses”
I guess I should attempt to make a bridge between “guitar” and “sophist.” In “Encomium of Helen” the sophist Gorgias defends Helen of Troy, widely considered to be the epitome of a bad woman. Gorgias argues that she is blameless … Continue reading
Posted in Music and Guitar, Rhetoric and teaching
Tagged McCain, Mellencamp, Reagan, sophist, Springsteen
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What is a Sophist?
The sophists were in a sense traveling professors of rhetoric and other arts. Most of what we know about them comes from Plato in dialogues like the Gorgias and the Protagoras. Susan Jarratt, in Re-reading the Sophists, argues that Plato … Continue reading
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