Tweets for Today
Today's ed-related tweets:
- [ #Foucault ] "If power is not simply violence, this is not only because it passes in itself through categories (cont) t.co/uswCEz5
- [ #philosophy ] "[P]hilosophy, in its very conception, has laboured under a 'transcendental illusion', which (cont) t.co/loIerOy
- [ #Deleuze ] "If philosophy is to have a positive and direct relation with things, it is only to the extent that (cont) t.co/bMWTpHK
- [ #Deleuze ] "[I]f it is a question of rediscovering at the end what was there in the beginning, if it is a (cont) t.co/fHuDXxg
- [ #Deleuze #Hegel ] "Hegel substitutes the abstract relation of the particular to the concept in general for the (cont) t.co/CBBZbxX
- [ #philosophy ] "In so far as each act of thought is a new beginning, emerging from the set of contingencies (cont) t.co/j17JpYN
- [ #edchat #edreform ] "The primary purpose of education in a democratic society is democracy. This essential (cont) t.co/ZQfEXFr
- [ #edresearch ] "The bottom line is that success breeds success and failure breeds failure. Opportunity and (cont) t.co/2pPguTb
- [ #edresearch #edreform ] "We are comfortable in the language of productivity, inputs, outputs, standards, and (cont) t.co/kkslrAo
- [ #edresearch #edreform ] "We hear a great deal about readying the next generation of workers for global (cont) t.co/ZGlzR8M
- [ #edchat #edreform ] "'Broad public and professional participation' (in forums and conferences) does not take (cont) t.co/tb62K3S
- [ #philosophy ] Postmodernists may be considered as 'responsible anarchists', "standing against the fantasies of (cont) t.co/GHDyFxq
- [ #philosophy ] Broadly generalizing, postmodernism consists of a "diverse and ephemeral collection of (cont) t.co/URmlafl
- [ #philosophy ] "Postmodernism calls into question the belief (or hope) that there is some form of innocent (cont) t.co/g98H5C0
- [ #PhilEd #edchat ] "In the process of schooling the student is compiled and constructed both in the passive (cont) t.co/ktxEFCL
- [ #philosophy ] "'Clarity' is always a distinction made through positions of power both to sanction what is (cont) t.co/Ir07UIj
- [ #philosophy ] "[T]he ethical virtue of postmodernism is that, although many believe it has cut the (cont) t.co/jSqgWK8
- [ #philosophy ] "Rather than seeing postmodern thinking as idle word-play for intellectuals, it might be more (cont) t.co/EYhWzLf
- [ #philosophy ] "The reductionist view of postmodernism, which sees it as limiting the scope of its inquiry (cont) t.co/K2rSaIk
- [ #edreform #edchat ] "[T]he recruitment of 'common sense' to the support of policy [is] a way in which 'effects (cont) t.co/PkgsVrI
- Provocative! => Analysis: The Big Society Riots - t.co/ekSJDK4 [ #sociology #uk #anthropos #culture ]
- Potent! => Prosperity and wealth - t.co/GyzCtev [ #sociology #culture #anthropos #capitalism ]
- Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during British riots - t.co/HiPis44 [ #UK #lawfare ]
- Undocumented and unafraid: Students brave arrest in Chicago - t.co/YLd2RkQ [ #Chicago #activism #edchat #solidarity ]
- BC: School superintendents ban reporters & tweet the news - t.co/pU9gJ43 [ #BCnews #BCed ]
- BC: Announcement via Twitter: No more optional provincial exams in BC - t.co/lFRZkFx [ #BCnews #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Surprised? || A teen who's having sex is a teen who's well-behaved - t.co/RzPB2NM [ #sociology #parenting #anthropos #edchat ]
- Americans think women need college more than men do - t.co/giHFGMS [ #loveHE #highered #anthropos #culture #news #fem2 #gender ]
- Elmo ≠ Gramsci for kids & the mythical soft bigotry of low expectations - t.co/tyfuN2p [ #parenting #culture #edchat #anthropos ]
- Lawsuit against Missouri School District alleges girl expelled after reporting sexual assault - t.co/ihsgnzv [ #lawfare #edchat ]
- Want to be a good researcher? Try teaching - t.co/zjdZ4EP [ #loveHE #highered #sociology #anthropos #edchat ]
- NIH pledges "action" after review affirms racial gap in grant approvals - t.co/xaaf5E4 [ #science #loveHE #highered ]
- NYU pays $210,000 to settle race-bias suit - t.co/TRPAlvP [ #loveHE #highered #lawfare #racism #complicity #misanthropy ]
- Obama's Ed Secretary says Perry's schools "left behind" - t.co/XDVpCkI [ #edchat #educhat ]