Welcome to this Special Issue of The Mind’s Eye: Pedagogies: What We Share. I’m grateful for the thoughtful and generous essays that resulted from inviting colleagues to share their teaching and learning stories. I thank my colleagues present and past who contributed to The Mind’s Eye for this issue: our contributing writers; the current Editorial […]
Photo credit: Reagan Smith “Alright, it’s 10:00 am. Time to go! Is everyone here? One , two, three, four…. eight, nine, ten… uh, where is Will? Has anyone seen Will? He’s not still sleeping is he? Is he at the bathroom?” “Uh, I think I saw him walking away from camp earlier this morning.” […]
Photo credit: Reagan Smith For me, teaching is a profoundly creative collaborative activity requiring inspiration, commitment, energy, and time. Teaching is exhilarating. Teaching is also exhausting. The work is difficult and intricate, and inconsistently rewarding. The commitment can come from a point of passion unalterable by the influence of circumstances, but the energy needs […]
Photo Credit: Reagan Smith Teaching at a public liberal arts college means that you teach a lot. Often, this means teaching some of the same courses every year, perhaps every semester. These courses are often a requirement in a major, and perhaps also the core. This familiarity and experience can be a benefit, helping […]
Jessica Park in her bedroom studio, 2004; image of Chrysler Building on drafting board Prologue It was a warm and inviting Berkshire afternoon in May of 2004. On the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts campus I stood in the doorway of the 94 Porter Street Gallery that opened to the building’s backyard, where a […]
On July 29, 2014 Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard K. Jones sent a letter to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs José Antonio Meade Kuribrena. This letter reads like an invoice demanding $900,000 from the Mexican government for “dealing with your criminals.” Sheriff Jones wrote a similar letter in 2010, […]
This writing marks the beginning of my work for a sabbatical leave in Spring 2019. My general interests are primarily in environmental issues and education. For my sabbatical, I am specifically focused on education of the emotion disgust. There is a tendency to think of our primary emotions – happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and […]
