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Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
Title
Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
Author
Tingelstad, Catherine, Otis, Stephanie
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Research--Methodology, Academic libraries
Description
Our collaborative project and resulting pedagogy emphasize student-centered learning and critical reading and introduce a disruptive challenge for students to question assumptions, challenge binary thinking, and tolerate ambiguity. Using class rea...
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Title
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Evolution, Philosophy
Description
This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...
American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Title
American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Evolution, Philosophy
Description
This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...