Stand up! Stand up, for the Emperor!
Image via Wikipedia I used to feel sorry for these people, and I do feel a lingering sympathy, but not much and it’s ebbing away quickly. Why are these people surprised? What were they expecting? The state is often institutionalized coercion: if they can make everyone study the same subjects, from the same textbooks, why [...]
Where to set the bar for EFL classes at Japanese universities?
(Photo credit: Limbo – “How Low Can You Go?” by sidneysealine3 on Flickr) The other day, I met an acquaintance who, like me, teaches English at a Japanese university. We were attending a wokshop, and at lunch he asked me: is very basic EFL really suitable for university students? Isn’t the bar being set too [...]
Revisiting “A Vision of students Today”
I’ve been an admirer of Mike Wesch, anthropology prof at Kansas State University, ever since I saw his very cool and slick video The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) He then had some of his Cultural Anthropology students help him make another YouTube video to tell the world what they think of their education: [...]
