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Fairy Tale Pedagogy, Part 1
Early this semester, three young women in my English 101 course asked me to come to their table during one of our weekly writing workshops. “This doesn’t have anything to do with dependent clauses,”...
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Fairy Tale Pedagogy, Part 2
In George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin (1872), a mysterious great-great-grandmother empowers her little grand-daughter to see the world with new eyes. In Part 1 of “Fairy Tale...
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Fairy Tale Pedagogy, Part 3
And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. I do not know if T.S. Eliot had...
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A Prayer for Our Students During Finals Week
Stick near them, Spirit of God, Keeper of the Men and Women Who Are Still So Young....
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Wonder among the Poor: Intellectual Appetite on the Streets
A parking lot in January is not, perhaps, the typical context for examining an academic thesis, but that is where I found myself on the day I finished Paul J. Griffith’s Intellectual Appetite. Huddled...
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