Teaching

How It Will Go, Episode 2: Teaching Du Bois

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson HIWG, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

This is the second installment in my How It Will Go series, documenting the regularity of students’ responses to certain figures/texts and, in the occasional rare instance that it happens, noting whatever variations I witness. Today’s episode: W.E.B. Du Bois on “The Conservation of Races” Context in which I teach this figure/text:  I usually teach…

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How It Will Go, Episode 1: Teaching Kant

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson HIWG, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

I’m starting a new series on this blog today, which I’ve named How It Will Go (hereafter, HIWG).  In each installment, I will anticipate how teaching a particular figure or text will go in my class, based on patterns that I’ve seen previously.  If something unusual or noteworthy happens, I’ll report back on it, but I…

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How It Will Go, Episode 3: Teaching Plato’s “The Story of Gyges’ Ring”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson HIWG, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

This is the third installment of my series How It Will Go, documenting the regularity of students’ responses to certain figures/texts and, in the occasional rare instance that it happens, noting whatever variations I witness. Today’s episode: Plato, “The Story of Gyges’ Ring,” (from The Republic) Context in which I teach this figure/text:   I begin…

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How It Will Go, Episode 4: Teaching Marx

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson HIWG, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

This is the fourth installment of my series How It Will Go, documenting the regularity of students’ responses to certain figures/texts and, in the occasional rare instance that it happens, noting whatever variations I witness. Today’s episode: Karl Marx on “Estranged Labor” from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Context in which I teach this…

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Grading War Letters to Home, Winter 2014 (Day Four)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson GradingWarLetterstoHome, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

These are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War.  If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Four, 11:22am Dear Charles,  I post this report on my station during a brief tho welcome respite. Forgive my wretched penmanship. I write quickly &…

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Grading War Letters to Home, Winter 2014 (Day Three)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson GradingWarLetterstoHome, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

These are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War.  If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Three, 9:33am My Dear Friend Charles,  Your letter from yesterday was rec’d in due time, and would have been answered ere now, but for the…

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Grading War Letters to Home, Winter 2014 (Day Two)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson GradingWarLetterstoHome, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

These are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War.  If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Two, 3:05am My Dearest Leigh, You cannot imagine my joy upon receiving your letter! I worked ceaselessly to fend off any and all of…

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Grading War Letters to Home, Winter 2014 (Day One)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson GradingWarLetterstoHome, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

These are the letters from the first day of the 2014 Grading War.  If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day One, 12:40am My Dear Leigh, It has been far too long since I’ve written to you. For this transgression, I can only hope you can…

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Grading War Letters To Home, Winter 2014 (The Unabridged Collection)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson GradingWarLetterstoHome, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

My good friend and colleague Charles McKinney and I are continuing our #GradingWarLetterstoHome correspondence this term.  If you’re unfamiliar with the backstory of how this hilariously ridiculous endeavor got started, I refer you to the archive of last year’s correspondences here, which also explains the origin and style of these letters. To save you a click…

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What You Can Do To Support PIKSI (which you *should* support) OTHER THAN Donating Your Money (which, if you are able, you *should* also do)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

It’s been a busy (in fact, record-breakingly busy) month here on RMWMTMBM, so I wanted to take a momentary break from the Leiter/PGR/SeptemberStatement brouhaha–about which this blog has more or less unfortunately become something akin to professional Philosophy’s version of TMZ— and instead remark upon an initiative as important to our discipline as, and not wholly…

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