NYMA:
Mother Always Said
The more I work in and out of the university, the more explicit I think we need to be about what we value—in the writing that we read, in the classes we teach, in our evaluations of our students, and in our work. It is too easy and too naive to believe that everyone around us values what we value in any of these cases. The more I talk with my colleagues, the more I find that we have to articulate our own values before we can come to some vision of shared values. We need to remember our own audiences. One of my graduate school professors always reminded us that “we are not our students” and nor are we our colleagues or our administrators.
“Views of computers, like views of literacy, are value-laden.” (Haas & Neuwirth, 1994, p. 319)
Monday, February 22, 2010
What we value
