This is a curated collection of my essays, blog posts, and articles, offering deep dives into a variety of topics and perspectives: pedagogy, anthropology, and more.
College as To-Do List
In Defense of the Morality of Citation: Giving Credit Where It’s Due is a Moral Issue
“The Trees Need Water” and the Students Need Authentic Responsibility: Learning Almost-in-the-Wild in a Community-Based Internship
My Favorite Thing: Talking to Students about Their Learning
Promises, Precarity, Pedagogy.” Comment on Mun Young Cho, “The Precariat That Can Speak: The Politics of Encounters between Educated Youth and the Urban Poor in Seoul,
The Ungrading Umbrella
Hack in Action: Teaching Students to Self-Grade
How to Ungrade: Practical Advice
Why Pedagogy is an Anthropological Problem
Let’s Talk Teaching: Progressive Pedagogy in Anthropology Courses
Fieldwork from Afar
The Elephant in the (Zoom) Room
Why We’re Exhausted by Zoom
“Why Ungrade? Why Grade?”
Just One Change (Just Kidding): Ungrading and Its Necessary Accompaniments
Not Simple But Essential
Exuberant Hallyu and Formidable Students: Two Faces of South Korean Youth Culture
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in East Asia
Why Don’t Anthropologists Care about Learning (or Education or School)? An Immodest Proposal for an Integrative Anthropology of Learning Whose Time Has Finally Come
How I Retreat and Regroup: A Model for Starting Summer by Getting Away
Speak Softly—or At Least Speak English. Academe should not police international students’ speech
Chinese Language and Social Justice
Signs of Eating Local
Practicing Anthropology and “Ethnographic Engineering” in a Community- based Ecological Project
Ungrading
Engagement in Practice: Not Just Technical Education; An Anthropological Perspective on a Community-Based Engineering Internship Program
Eat Food from [Here]: The Talismanic Semiotics of Local Food
Unseen WEIRD Assumptions: The So-Called Language Gap Discourse and Ideologies of Language, Childhood, and Learning
Free and Easy Wandering: Humans, Humane Education, and Designing in Harmony with the Nature of the Way
The Gap that Won’t Be Filled: An Anthropolitical Critique of the “Language Gap.”
Save CA Residents from a Language Drought: Vote “Yes” This Fall
Melania Trump introduces herself to the American people
What It Means to Be a Student Today
White + Word Gap = Wrong!
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
The Middle Class (Thinks It) Knows Best: Daring to Intervene in Disadvantaged Households
The Game of School
The United States of (Non)Reading: The End of Civilization or a New Era?
Wordism’: Is There a Teacher in the House?
Selling the Language Gap: False Premises, False Promises
‘The Language Gap’—Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet. Huffington Post Education. April 30
Saving the Appearances: Long Live the SAT
Rand Paul’s Signal: I’m No Effete Intellectual Property Wuss
Enigmatic China Will Have You on the Edge of Your Seat
The Empire’s Clothes
Purity and Danger in Academia: The Strange Case of Chen Guangcheng at NYU
A Teacher’s Delight: My Students Are Talking About Class Behind My Back—But in a Good Way
Who’s Cheating Whom? Atlanta Scandal Makes Us Wonder What It’s All About
Learners Are People, Not Isolated Test-Taking Brains: Why MOOCs Both Work and Fail
The Con: Manti Te’o, Notre Dame, Football, Human Nature
Like Riding a Bicycle: If Learned, It Cannot Be Forgotten. And It Might as Well Not Be Tested
Is a New Definition of Plagiarism Needed?: Yes
China, Mo Yan and the Nobel: Truth and Consequences
The Happiness Deferral Chain: Music Versus Test Preparation
How Equal Are We Anyway? Different Illusions of Meritocracy in Chinese and United States Schooling
Post-Election Schooling Blues: Children Are Not Widgets
In Quest of an Antidote for Academic Corruption
Women Dominate Higher Education—But Not in China
The School Game
Education Is War, According to A Term-Paper Mill: A Metaphor to Justify By
College for All? Forget College? Irreconcilable Extremes
11 Reactions to the Harvard Cheating Scandal
In Memorium: Norma Diamond
The Natural End of Schooling
Called by the Earth: Women in Sustainable Farming
Why Does China Fear the Internet?
A Fork in the Road: Educating Tibetans in Tibetan?
Wang Hui, Plagiarism, and the Great Bourgeois Academic Cultural Revolution
Happy News: Censorship, Nationalism, and Language Ideology in China
Swimming in a Sea of Texts: Attribution in the Age of the Internet
Should China Copy the West on Academic Integrity?
Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism: A Question of Education, Not Ethics
Inaugural Oath Like a Magic Spell: The Right Words Matter
China-ism’ Lesson Explains Future of Tibet
The Internet, the Self, Authorship, and Plagiarism
Sleep and the Sabbatical
Of Rice and Meat: Real Chinese Food
Diamond in the Field: The Life and Work of Norma Diamond
Performance and Pastiche: The Norm of Non-Originality
Buzzing and Writing the Day Away Instant Messaging: Studying a New Form of Communication
Nationalism without Linguism: Tolerating Chinese Variants
Five Approaches to Explaining “Truth” and “Deception” in Human Communication.
Instant Messaging: Functions of a New Communicative Tool
“La ruse et ses cousins de China” (Rusing and its cousins in China)
Good to Hear: Using the Trope of Standard to Find One’s Way in a Sea of Linguistic Diversity
Introduction: Reconsidering the ‘Middle Kingdom'
Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming
Rural China and the WTO
Truth
Tales From the Fields of Yunnan: Listening to Han Stories
China’s Many Faces: Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Pluralism
Pearls on the String of the Chinese Nation: Pronouns, Plurals, and Prototypes in Talk About Identities
Naming Practices and the Power of Words in China
Ethnic Diversity in Southwest China: Perceptions of Self and Other
Profile: Orville Schell
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