👋 Rebecca here
I’m a doctoral candidate in the department of Art & Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University (also a 2026 graduate Fellow of Yale’s ‘Life Worth Living’ Program)
According to Humanities Indicators, humanities majors work across a wide range of sectors, earn substantially more than non-degree holders, & report high job satisfaction. The "unemployable humanities grad" is a myth. We need more humanists.
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🎤 TODAY at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
I’ll be presenting a paper titled “Past Wisdom, Future Possibilities: Harnessing the Power of Deweyan Educative Aesthetic Experience in Challenging Times,” with findings from a recent pilot study @metmuseum.org
If you’re here, come by!
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Book 29: ‘Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again: Buddhist Wisdom Reflected in 26 Artists’ by Kevin Thomas Townley
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Book 28: Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception
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So honored to have presented my paper “Learning to see & attend in the age of distraction” this weekend at @pesgb.bsky.social at the picturesque @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social.
What an extraordinary weekend of scholarship and community — officially my new favorite conference 🏆
📄 Had the honor of presenting my paper titled “Knower, Knowing, and Known: The Onto-Epistemological Unity of Aesthetic Experience” at the Metaphysical Society of America Conference at @yale.edu & wandered the gorgeous halls of the Humanities Quadrangle. Nerd heaven.
@yalewhc.bsky.social // #philsky
Book 27: ‘The Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
🏆 This one ranks up there with Proust’s Lost Time, Joyce’s Ulysses & DFW’s Infinite Jest in my reading history, in terms of length x difficulty, but ultimately well worth the effort
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Book 26: ‘Heidegger on Being Affected’ by Katherine Withy
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Book 25 : ‘Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault’ by Pierre Hadot
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Book 24: ‘After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory’ (Third Edition) by Alasdair MacIntyre
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📣 I’m delighted to share that I’ve been selected as a 2026 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 at @yale.edu!
I am honored to join a wonderful community of educators exploring questions of meaning, flourishing & the good life in education.
lifeworthliving.yale.edu/people/rebec... #academicsky #edusky
Book 23: ‘The Mattering Instinct
How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us’ by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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📍The Philosophy of Education Society
82nd Annual Meeting on the theme ‘To Be Rooted: Place, Education, and Ethics’ kicks off this morning in Pittsburgh.
Looking forward to the next 3 days of educative experience.
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Book 22: ‘Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement’ by Friends of Attention (D. Graham Burnett et al.)
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Beautiful snowy walk to tonight’s Bettman Lecture by Jo Applin, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art, The Courtauld Institute on “Going Soft: Sculpture, Ageing, and the Sixties”
Excited art nerd 🤓
📍 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
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Book 21: ‘The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life’ by Richard H. Thaler
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🔒 Closing Session: From Possibility to Progress
Neerav Kingsland, @anthropic.com
Rebecca Winthrop, @brookings.edu
Susanna Loeb, @stanfordeducation.bsky.social
Shantanu Sinha, @google.bsky.social
Moderator: John Hennessy
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🔥 Fireside Chat: Blueprints for a Global Human-Centered Learning System
Miriam Riveral
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director,
Ulu ventures
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All (@teachforamerica.bsky.social)
Moderator: Dan Schwarz (dean, @stanfordeducation.bsky.social)
#edusky #ai #techsky
🎙️Creativity in the Age of Al: Catalyst or Hindrance?
Chris Chafe
Guilherme Lichand
Mehran Sahami
Hari Subramonyam
(All @stanforduniversity.bsky.social professors researching creativity)
Moderator: Brian Johnsruc
Director of Education, @adobe.com
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🎙️Scaling Human-Centered AI: What It Takes to Transform Learning for All
Susan Athey, @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
Amanda Bickerstaff, Al for Education
James Landay, @stanfordhai.bsky.social)
lan Chiu, Owl Venture
Moderator: Lewis Leiboh, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
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🎙️The Inflection Point: A New Purpose for Learning with Denise Pope (@stanfordeducation.bsky.social) and Randi Michel (@governor.ca.gov senior advisor for Tech)
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📍 AI+Education Summit @stanforduniversity.bsky.social // Hosted by @stanfordhai.bsky.social @stanfordeducation.bsky.social
Let’s talk about human-centered, AI facilitated learning 🏫 🤖
Book 20: ‘Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community’ by Robert Putnam
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Book 19: “Life in Culture; Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling” by Lionel Trilling; Edited by Adam Kirsch
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Book 18: ‘Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives’ by Robert D. Richardson (Foreword by Megan Marshall) / @princetonupress.bsky.social)
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Such a great book, would definitely recommend! Prompted me to dive into Bergson more deeply than I had before and really enjoyed that too.