{"id":5825,"date":"2022-05-02T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:44:04","slug":"great-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5825","title":{"rendered":"Great interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I appreciated this entire interview<\/a> as both a high school teacher and an adjunct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This quote about life as an adjunct was money: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also,\u00a0adjunctification: The phenomenon in universities in this country today in which about 70 percent of teaching <\/em>is done by non-tenure-track faculty means that 70 percent of those who are teaching basically don\u2019t have academic freedom. Technically they have it, but they\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have it in the sense that they don\u2019t have job security. They\u2019re dependent on student evaluations on the one hand and faculty approval on the other. What does that mean? They have to teach in a way that is entertaining. They can\u2019t teach anything too challenging. They can\u2019t teach the basic literacies that students need to understand the world in a deep way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about critical literacy\/doing the reading for class, I was struck by how much of this essay represents a kind of demand for students to grapple with the readings. Most of us set up courses with a wide range of perspectives so that the reading can be the basis for the conversation, which gives a reason to limit things as Professor Brown suggests: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in your view it\u2019s a kind of category error to think of an academic classroom as a site for free speech?\u00a0<\/strong>Yes. Not because there shouldn\u2019t be openness for ideas to circulate but because it\u2019s\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>a free-speech zone. You can\u2019t just say anything. You come into my class on political theory, and we\u2019re talking about John Stuart Mill or Plato, and you want to begin yelling about the Russians attacking Ukraine, I\u2019m going to tell you that\u2019s not appropriate. I\u2019ve given you a kind of extreme example. To the student who starts denouncing Marx \u2014 clearly not having read the text, <\/em><\/strong>which is terribly common <\/em><\/strong>\u2014 I\u2019m not going to say, \u201cOK, you get your five minutes and the next student gets their five minutes.\u201d No, it\u2019s not a free-speech domain. It should be a domain in which all kinds of concerns that bear on the topic have a place, no doubt about that, but that\u2019s not free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appreciated this entire interview as both a high school teacher and an adjunct. This quote about life as an adjunct was money: Also,\u00a0adjunctification: The phenomenon in universities in this country today in which about 70 percent of teaching is done by non-tenure-track faculty means that 70 percent of those who are teaching basically don\u2019t … Continue reading Great interview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1vX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}