I think this post adopts a very narrow meaning of 'subversive' which mostly boils down to this: opposing a "a top-down view that favours the development of 'evidence-based' rather than 'research-informed' practice." This 'research-informed' practice embodies three elements: "values-based rather than complying with institutional accountability pressures"; "include administrators and students as well as academics"; view teaching and research as "inseparable parts of a single process." This to me (admittedly as an outsider) feels more like replacing one form of authoritarianism with another. See also Neil Postman's Teaching as a Subversive Activity (185 page PDF), this interview of Melinda Anderson by Jennifer Gonzalez. Or this post by Kulamakan (Mahan) Kulasegaram where we read, "Our desire for subversive pedagogy must inevitably contend with an equally strong discourse: standardization of practice and outcomes." Or Subversive Teaching: the TED talk.
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