What is Antheum?
Antheum is a digital garden, created by Will Denny. It is a play on the Greek άνθεμον (anthemon / flower) and mουσεῖον (mouseion / library), taken to mean a digital garden.
A digital garden is a combination of a blog and a knowledge management system. Rather than static articles that are posted on a specific date, digital gardens have multiple pages of ideas that are grown, trimmed, or pruned over time.
So, Antheum is a collection of my notes as I research the topics and issues that I am studying. You’ll also find notes on personal knowledge management, teaching, learning, language acquisition, social work and cultural psychology. Currently, I am interested in the experiences of linguistic minority students in higher education and issues of linguistic and cultural equity and diversity on college campuses.
Remember, these are working notes in the sense that the priority is function over form. You will find missing links, inconsistent formatting, and half-formed ideas. My philosophy with this collection is to develop and improve the topics that I am working on at the moment. I rarely spend time polishing notes from topics that are not otherwise taking up my attention.
Read more about the knowledge management methods I use. Read more about how this collection is organized. Sometimes I post shorter things on Mastodon.
Areas of interest
- Socioacademic Relationships
- Organization
- Linguistic minority students in higher education
- Linguistic minority students and academic dishonesty
Recent writing
- Social rejection is the opposite of social support.
- Social support should not be used in lieu of efforts to reduce environmental stress.
- Lack of agency can be a stressful condition.
- Students can benefit from taking the time to map out their socioacademic support networks and being coached on how to ask those resources for help.
- Culture shock is disrupted social support.
- Giving students the freedom to use all of their language resources develops agency while building skills in multiple languages.
- Translingualism and plurilingualism are two similar but distinct pedagogies.
- Feelings of community and belonging reduces acculturation stress in international and resident immigrant students.
- Cultural integration is a stressful endeavor.
- Social support is a powerful tool for coping with stress.