Inden året udløber er der én sidste ting, jeg skal nå at gøre. Hvert nytår vælger jeg et ord, der skal hjælpe mig og guide mig gennem det kommende år. Til dette år valgte jeg ordet Jordforbindelse. Både som en påmindelse om ikke at …
Read MoreEn pædagogisk fejlslutning
I sidste uge blev mit blogindlæg om højskolerne udgivet på Altinget.dk, hvilket mange-doblede antallet af læsere. Ikke mindst fordi højskoleforeningen (FFD) også delte det på deres Facebook-side, og kaldte indlægget “en bredside til højskolerne.” Og der var da også flere, der så indlægget som et …
Read MoreFra Hogwarts til handlekraft – nye veje for højskolerne i det 21. århundrede
Siden jeg stoppede hos Medborgerne, har jeg afsøgt hvilke veje, jeg nu skal gå. Jeg vil arbejde endnu bredere med at styrke fundamentet i det danske civilsamfund. Og skabe bedre vilkår for andre, der gerne vil engagere sig, men som ikke ved hvordan eller som …
Read MoreGet it done
I’m awfully late to the party, but I just came across Bre Pettis and Kio Stark’s “Cult of Done” manifesto: 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. …
Read MoreTeaching it
A long time ago, I wrote a post about anthropologist Michael Wesch‘s concept of anti-teaching. Since then, he has been refining it even further while teaching huge “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” classes at Kansas State University. And now he’s written a very worthwhile article [.pdf] …
Read MoreHow to write a thesis
Writing a thesis is a difficult undertaking. Before I started writing mine, I hadn’t written any assignment longer than 30 pages (my Bachelor’s essay), and it was quite a step up from that to having to structure a huge complex of data that I’d gathered …
Read MoreSpending a morning as an anthropologist
This morning I sat in on a seminar about research and anthropology intended to get Danish high school students interested in anthropology. My mother, who is high school teacher, brought her students from Aarhus to Copenhagen on a couple of days of excursion, and in-between …
Read MoreThesis writing
I met with thesis advisor (or supervisor – I’m not really sure about the proper English terminology here. I think advisor sounds more precise) yesterday to discuss the outline of my thesis. As I had figured, he agreed that it was a good idea to …
Read MoreChanging teaching
What now feels like a long time ago, I wrote on anti-teaching and my curiosity towards the book Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. Well, as chance would have it, I got the book for Christmas, and now I have …
Read MoreMaking the most of your education
Students always complain about their teachers. Teachers often complain about their students. But you know things are turning worse when students are complaining about their fellow students. But that is just what this American graduate student is doing in this letter: Consumerism as ideology manifests …
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