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summercomfort) wrote2006-08-09 10:49 pm
summercomfort) wrote2006-08-09 10:49 pm
I miss academic writing
I miss constructing arguments, I miss the a-ha! moments, I miss the excitement of finding your point provable, the despair of losing it again, and the joy of making everything fit, one by one. Rigor!
Education does not seem to be a discipline. Everything's hypenated. There's education-anthropologists, education-linguists, education-psychologists, education-historians. Each academic discipline has its own immutable traits. You read a paper and you can say "this is a history paper" or "this is a political science paper". History papers is about periodization, about using primary sources to challenge historiography. There is always a progression, and multiple causes. But what seems to make a paper an education paper is that it has the words "education", "teacher" or "child" in it. Race in schools (sociology), Critical thinking in schools (psychology), cultural interaction in schools (anthropology), group vs. individual in schools (philosophy).... where is the education in schools?
Education does not seem to be a discipline. Everything's hypenated. There's education-anthropologists, education-linguists, education-psychologists, education-historians. Each academic discipline has its own immutable traits. You read a paper and you can say "this is a history paper" or "this is a political science paper". History papers is about periodization, about using primary sources to challenge historiography. There is always a progression, and multiple causes. But what seems to make a paper an education paper is that it has the words "education", "teacher" or "child" in it. Race in schools (sociology), Critical thinking in schools (psychology), cultural interaction in schools (anthropology), group vs. individual in schools (philosophy).... where is the education in schools?