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David Gooblar
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prof at uiowa // writer on pedagogy and higher ed // trying not to post

Pedagogy Unbound: A Newsletter: http://pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com

New book out now: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297487
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Starting one week from today, you can read my new book alongside other people who care about equity in higher ed. I'll be chiming in, too. Check it out at: Perusall.com/engage
An image promoting a Perusall book event for my book: One Classroom at a Time. Go to perusall.com/engage for more information.
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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And check this out, from the mighty @biblioracle.bsky.social!
August 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If you can believe it, I was lucky enough to be read by @susandblum.bsky.social!
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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And @thetattooedprof.bsky.social!
August 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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It's @kfitz.info!
August 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Look how happy you could be if you order a copy of my new book!
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I'm spending time this week with Sheridan Blau's The Literature Workshop and came across "the Goldilocks Assignment."
Sheridan Blau on an assignment called the "Goldilocks Assignment." "It requires that students read through their poetry anthology at home and select three poems to write about in their reading logs and identify for discussion in class: one poem that they judge to be too hard, one that they think too easy, and one that is for them just right."
January 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I have to prep for class, so I don't have time to give this (predictably awful) NYTMag piece the dressing down it deserves, but: anyone who thinks about mandated diversity statements for more than five seconds can see through the fallacy that they have anything to do with "ideological conformity."
Screenshot of the headline of Stephen L. Carter's piece in the NYT Magazine: "College is All About Curiosity. And That Requires Free Speech: True learning can only happen on campuses where academic freedom is paramount—within and outside the classroom." Screenshot of this passage from Stephen L. Carter's piece: "Nowadays, I worry that we’re repeating the same mischief, with mandated (or strongly encouraged) “diversity statements” and the like. I’m often told that because I obviously agree with the goals the statements promote, I shouldn’t make a big deal out of them. But this objection misses the point. The “what’s the big deal?” approach puts me in mind of the philosopher Sidney Hook, who in a 1953 essay in The Times argued that an academic who refused to swear to not being a member of the Communist Party was like a chef who refused to say whether he was the one who poisoned the food. Not for a moment did Hook entertain the notion that the hypothetical professor might simply believe, as a matter of principle, that it is wrong to screen the professorate for ideological conformity. It was wrong then; it is wrong now."
January 25, 2024 at 6:45 PM