Archive for the ‘Pedagogy’ Category

January 1, 2010 4

On Being Corrupted By Literature Courses

By Robert Minto in Depreciations, Education, Pedagogy

Next semester, for the first time, I will be taking no literature courses. (I will be taking a short story writing class, but that doesn’t count.) I have three complaints to make against literature classes.
First: literature classes seem to be designed for people who don’t read. This semester, during a particularly inane session of Early [...]

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November 25, 2009 0

“Programming” As a Pedagogy of Desire

By Robert Minto in Community, Desire, Learning, Pedagogy

This evening I borrowed and perused the first half of James K.A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom. His thesis involves the notion that because humans are not simply cognitive beings but actual desiring animals (embodied, and carrying in every action an implicit telos) Christian education needs to be about the forming of desires as well as [...]

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November 14, 2009 0

The Moral Tutelage of Literature

By Robert Minto in Books, Literary Theory, Pedagogy, Virtue

To the Lighthouse is a profoundly convicting book. As we follow Virginia Woolf on her whirlwind tour through the consciousnesses of her characters, I imagine that all of us will get stuck identifying with a particular character. She lures us into identification by attractively presenting the internal monologue of that character—in my case, the single-minded [...]

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