Tag: education
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Priorities
I am lucky to have a job that I love. But in the eighteen months of settling into full-time academia, I seem to have lost sight of the ‘love’ and become fixated on the ‘job’. A weird thing has happened in recent weeks, in that I’ve tried to become more focused on what is actually important […]
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Teaching film and media in a neoliberal bubble
First point: I am a teacher. This is a role that bestows on me power and control over others. Second point: I am white, male, heterosexual, educated, and middle-class. This is an identity that inscribes within me a particular world-view. Third point: I teach film and media studies. This is a discipline which is inherently […]