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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: learning as radical pedagogy

It is time for the annual pilgrimage.

While the pace of this blog might vary through a calendar year, Ken Campbell Day remains a constant at the threshold of the educational year.

2024

INTELLIGENT LIFE

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31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, the radical education of seekers

It is time for the annual pilgrimage.

(Our Ken is not to be confused with the homonymous Canadian politician, Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, Canadian swimmer, assorted other sportsmen, a plastic doll, etc.)

This post is a collage accumulating in annual accretion: Campbellian education in action, learning-centred learning, every year another Station continues the post’s rambling Way of Sorrows.

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30 September: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Here is something that I wrote last year for its 30th of September, in what might superficially seem unconnected: a course called “Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World I: Medieval to Early Modern.” But all things are connected, even if you have to do some thinking work to get there. And that work is always worth doing and a good thing. Especially today.

This post is about poetry and listening.

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