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For the past year, Amy Collier has been exclusively reading books written by women. Inspired by the fruits and frustrations of her investigation into the literary canon, she founded an online collective called Uncovered Classics, a book-list and design gallery which…

Amy Collier doesn’t want to read books by Jonathan Franzen. But she will. If you pay her a lot of money.

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Davis and Sumara (2008) argue that “an education that is understood in complexity terms cannot be conceived in terms of preparation for the future. Rather, it must be construed in terms of participation in the creation of possible futures” (p. 43). And yet the push for simplicity and accountability defines a pretty narrow set of possible outcomes for students. Gardner Campbell cautions us to be careful with learning outcomes statements: “Yet these [learning outcomes] are still behaviors, specified with a set of what I can only describe as jawohl! statements, all rewarding the _bon eleves_ and marching toward compliance and away from more elusive and disruptive concepts like curiosity or wonder.” Simplification and an over-pursuit of accountability run counter to our view that education is complex, messy, creative, unpredictable, multi-faceted, social, and part of larger systems.

Amy Collier, “Not-yetness” (via Thomas Steele-Maley)