Several years ago, after spending just a year in the CiRCE Master Teacher Apprenticeship, I wrote an article about my experience, which included “paideia, Pentecost, and hygge.” Fast forward a few years: I graduated from the apprenticeship (in 2022), and since then, I have been working on the upcoming book The Good Teacher: Ten Key […]
The following talk was presented by Carrie Eben at the CiRCE Apprenticeship graduation ceremony. A Circe Apprenticeship Odyssey: Paideia and Pentecost in Pestilence and Poetry Introducing the East Coast Apprenticeship III (which should be renamed to something far sexier, I think—like the Virgin Muses, or Mighty Aphrodite’s—but I digress).We are an all-female flagship group headed
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I judged Prospero once. However, this morning when I savagely arose from my bed, hunched from achy sleep, my Caliban shell offered a new knowledge. I am Prospero. Even worse, I am Prospero in a Caliban body (as I struggled to straighten myself). In the style of my teen pupils, I offered my spring apprentice
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