Author: Owen Schuster

Although I was abroad in the fall and therefore set my learning goals for the internship in the winter, I believe I have taken steps towards reaching those goals over the course of the last term and during the first half of this term. My first goal was related to Special Collections and gaining a… Continue Reading Update on Learning Goals Progress

I really enjoyed the readings from Bell Hooks’ Teaching Critical Thinking. In Chapter 4 “Decolonization,” Hooks raises the interesting point that “liberation is an ongoing process” and that we are “bombarded daily by a colonizing mentality (few of us manage to escape the received messages coming from every area of our lives), one that not… Continue Reading Initial Thoughts on Bell Hooks’ Teaching Critical Thinking