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Killer App is a bad metaphor for historical trends, good for pseudoteaching

Image via Wikipedia Niall Ferguson wrote in The Guardian some time ago about how awful history education has become with these “new-fangled” 40-year-old methods like focusing on “history skills” that...

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Pseudo-education as a weapon: Beyond the ridiculous in linguistic prescriptivism

Teacher in primary school in northern Laos (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Most of us are all too happy to repeat clichés about education to motivate ourselves and others to engage in this liminal ritual of...

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