This past fall, I lost my job. As a tenured full professor at a state university, that is not a sentence I ever thought I would write. I study higher education, and I live in the state with the lowest public funding for its colleges, so I understood—in the abstract—that I was caught in a net that is pulling many of us out of the work we love. But understanding the context didn’t help much. I was grieving the loss of my colleagues, my students, and the community I had taught inside for more than a quarter century. Mostly, I was grieving the loss of my vocation.
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I have taught mathematics for a very long time at a college level, however, I have been always highly motivated to identify how should properly learn mathematics without causing the stress and frustration that occurs to many youngsters. Today, I dedicated a significant part of my life to explore that avenue. I decided to remove from my vocabulary the word teaching and simply saying that I’m sharing my mathematical knowledge, since I’m also learning from my interlocutors.
Today, I fully agree that our learning process must be initiated from us, the learners.
Thank you Robin for sharing your amazing experience of life by discovering such a profound view how to learn.
Claudio Morales