The Ideal
I have joined the blog-topia on the web for a variety of reasons, all of which have to do with my massive ego.
Okay, maybe not.
But I have told myself for a long time now that making a blog would need to have more of a point than simply some place to keep my family and friends up-to-date on the Devenney household as we spend the next ten or so months living in Dublin. That I would need some kind of rough focus, or the whole enterprise is for shit.
Thus, this blog's purpose is a forum for me to think through and relate my experiences in higher education, as I try to make the transition from being a student in a doctoral program to being a professional historian with a real job. I will talk about the process of making history, the process of teaching history, the process of making teachers of history, or whatever little nifty thing I find in the archives here on any given day or any other issue that comes to my attention. Hopefully, some besides me with find what I have to say marginally interesting. And I will quite judiciously comment on anything else (politics, media, comics, whatever) that suits my fancy.
Of course, the real purpose of this blog is to construct an elaborate smokescreen of apparent progress on my dissertation that my advisors (Dr. Jim Schmiechen and Dr. Tim O'Neil) will find believable. Or so I want them to think. Moo hoo ha ha...Pedagogy.
Welcome to History in the Trenches.
Okay, maybe not.
But I have told myself for a long time now that making a blog would need to have more of a point than simply some place to keep my family and friends up-to-date on the Devenney household as we spend the next ten or so months living in Dublin. That I would need some kind of rough focus, or the whole enterprise is for shit.
Thus, this blog's purpose is a forum for me to think through and relate my experiences in higher education, as I try to make the transition from being a student in a doctoral program to being a professional historian with a real job. I will talk about the process of making history, the process of teaching history, the process of making teachers of history, or whatever little nifty thing I find in the archives here on any given day or any other issue that comes to my attention. Hopefully, some besides me with find what I have to say marginally interesting. And I will quite judiciously comment on anything else (politics, media, comics, whatever) that suits my fancy.
Of course, the real purpose of this blog is to construct an elaborate smokescreen of apparent progress on my dissertation that my advisors (Dr. Jim Schmiechen and Dr. Tim O'Neil) will find believable. Or so I want them to think. Moo hoo ha ha...Pedagogy.
Welcome to History in the Trenches.
