Using the pandemic to reimagine the goals of teaching might be the unexpected upside of a miserable situation. Today’s university environment may also reveal something essential that had previously been hidden – namely, the mechanism by which learning happens, and the need for imaginative and inspiring pedagogy.
NEW YORK – During the 2007-08 financial crisis, many experienced what literary scholars call a “crisis of representation.” Globally, more than $15 trillion seemed to evaporate, and people wondered, “Wait a second, what is money? How could all of this value just disappear? If this thing that represented that other thing can vanish, was there ever anything there in the first place?”
NEW YORK – During the 2007-08 financial crisis, many experienced what literary scholars call a “crisis of representation.” Globally, more than $15 trillion seemed to evaporate, and people wondered, “Wait a second, what is money? How could all of this value just disappear? If this thing that represented that other thing can vanish, was there ever anything there in the first place?”