Rebecca Taylor FRSA
🏛️ educator, philosopher, strategist, museum nerd
👩🏼🏫 Art & Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University
⌛️ MoMA/PS1, The Getty, MOCA
🏫 RSA | ICOM | AERA | AAHE | PES | INPE | JDS | IPPA | APA
#aesthetics #museums #philsky #edusky #academicsky #artsky
- New year, new reading challenge: 126 in 2026 📚 Will post finished texts with cover image in this thread 🧵 Book 1: Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’: A New Translation and Commentary by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy // cc @shambhala-pubs.bsky.social #booksky #bookchallenge #poetrysky
- Book 2: ‘Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.’ Translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy #booksky #bookchallenge #poetrysky #philsky #academicsky
- Book 3: Pádraig Ó. Tuama’s “Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World” #booksky #bookchallenge #poetrysky #philsky #academicsky
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View full threadBook 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) #booksky #bookchallenge #poetrysky #philsky
- 📣 I’m pleased to share that my latest research article - 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬: 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 - has just been published in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Hyperbolic headlines often tell us that Gen Z (& Gen Alpha) are fundamentally different learners & cultural participants. This study set out to examine whether those claims align with what educators are actually experiencing, and to better understand how NYC museums are engaging the next generation.
- The multi-pronged study explores teen–museum dynamics in NYC through: a review of the literature on best practices in teen engagement, a survey of 10 NYC visual arts institutions, observation of multiple teen programs, and an interview with Caroline Quigley (then head of Teen Art Week NYC).
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- 📍Kicking off my first conference of the year: @apaphilosophy.bsky.social in Baltimore {will live skeet as much as possible — but may only be session titles & speakers) #philsky #easternapa
- COLLOQUIUM: PERCEPTION 📝 Alison Springle (Miami) on "A Puzzle about Perception & Episodic Memory" // 🎤 Mason Westfall 📝 Abby Concha (Notre Dame) on "Gestalt Moral Perception: Answering an Epistemic Challenge” // 🎤Jonna Vance 📝 Lesley Walker on "Intersectionality in Perception" // 🎤 August Gorman
- COLLOQUIUM: Phenomenal Subjectivity 📝 Aman Sakhardande (U of Toronto) on "A Measured Defense of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Time” // 🎤 Rebecca Harrison (@rebeccaharrison.bsky.social // @fordham.edu) 📝 John Keller (Saint Joseph’s University) on “On Omnisubjectivity” / 🎤 David Bourget #philsky
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View full threadFINAL SYMPOSIUM OF @apaphilosophy.bsky.social 🪑Jack Condie ( @thenewschool.bsky.social ) 📝 Gus Law (@dukeuni.bsky.social) on “Is It Our Nature to Become Good? Conversation with Aristotle and Mengzi” Commentators Seth Robertson (@harvard.edu) Benjamin Huff (Randolph-Macon) #philsky #academicsky
- ⚡️TFW you get your first paper/ journal acceptance of the year (JME) while en route 🚆 to your first conference (@apaphilosophy.bsky.social) of the year. Let’s do this 2026 🏁 #academicsky #philsky #edusky
- My year in books courtesy of @goodreads: 📚 155 books read (goal: 125) 📖 46,668 pages read 📓 Genres: philosophy, nonfiction, psychology 📆 Peak reading months: January, July, August (when the university is in recess) #academicsky #booksky #philsky #edusky
- New year, new reading challenge: 125 in 2025 📚 Will post finished texts with cover image in this thread 🧵 Book #1: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures) by Donna J. Haraway #booksky #philsky #academicsky #bookchallenge
- ✨ Publication Announcement ✨ “Re-presencing: A Pedagogical Framework for Ritualized Engagement with Art Grounded in Deweyan Experience” (2025) 🔗: muse.jhu.edu/pub/60/artic... I’m happy to share that I’ve penned an article for the latest issue of Education & Culture. #edusky #philsky #academicsky
- This work is deeply rooted in John Dewey, who believed aesthetic experience can awaken perception, deepen meaning & support self-cultivation. I hope the article is of interest and sparks many fruitful conversations. cc @johndeweysociety.bsky.social @deweycenter.siu.edu
- 📢 Announcement: "Dewey’s Salon" Launches in January 2026! The AERA Dewey Studies SIG announces "Dewey’s Salon," a new monthly online gathering dedicated to recent Deweyan scholarship. Each session will feature a short presentation by the author, followed by Q&A. #philsky #edusky #academicsky
- 📅 Upcoming Sessions: Friday, January 30, 11am ET Deweyan Aesthetic Experience (Rebecca Taylor) lnkd.in/eSySbb_9 Friday, February 20, 11am ET Deweyan Democracy in Age of Disinformation (Roudy Hildreth) Friday, March 27, 11am ET Learning to Connect w/ Students (John Burrell) #academicsky #philsky
- If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Rebecca Taylor at rt2904@tc.columbia.edu to receive the Zoom link and PDFs of the paper(s) in advance. We look forward to gathering with colleagues near and far to explore Deweyan scholarship together in the new year.
