May 2008

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Diversity is not enough

Posted Thu, 05/01/2008 - 12:12 by Venus Evans-Winters

I am feel so humbled to be a part of an intellectual, creative, and active community space where I can wear my many identities. Thank you Shirley and Joe. You both have been my colleagues/advocates/mentors/muses, when I seem to need that extra whisper in my ear most. Now, that I have paid homage...Is it just me or is the assaults and microaggressions coming more frequently in the academy?

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Critical pedagogy: Lessons from the homefront

Posted Fri, 05/02/2008 - 13:35 by Venus Evans-Winters

I arrived at the school today, as usual, 5 minutes late (okay 10 minutes). My son appreciates my tardiness. It allows him more time with friends. I spot him and his small frame. The other second graders are growing up and out. Finally, he acknowledges my silver Taurus.
He opens the back door. "Oh, you can ride in the front," I say to him. I appreciate our face-to-face time. "How was school today?" He replies, "Good." A common answer that awaits my routine response. "What made it good?"
With a sigh, "Do you have to ask me that everytime?"
Mocking his sigh, "Yes, so what made it good."

Taboo Issue Available Online

 

Volume 10, Issue 2 of Taboo, The Journal of Culture and Education, is available for download.

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Ron Mize's First Blog Entry

Posted Wed, 05/07/2008 - 10:40 by Ron Mize

At the Crossroads of Critical Pedagogy, Global Sociology, and Latino/a Studies

Call for Papers and Workshops


A conference organised by:

Faculty of Arts, Monash University Oases Borderlands Cooperative Research Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies at University of Technology, Sydney November 27 - 28, 2008

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Crying Terrorism

Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 17:47 by Richard Kahn

Paulo Freire wrote that conflict is the midwife of consciousness. I would like to spend the next few blogs considering the meaning of political violence. In this first entry, I recount the tale of learning something about the ability of the nationally organized right-wing to lock down the terms of discourse in a small rural community in order to serve the larger political machinery.

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“the emotional simplicity and terrible beauty of lies”

Posted Fri, 05/09/2008 - 11:12 by Nita Schmidt an...

“We are bombarded, thousands of times a day, with the emotional simplicity and terrible beauty of lies,” writes Chris Hedges (I Don’t Believe in Atheists, p. 177). As we, Nita and Paul, welcome you to this blog about critical literacy, the humanizing and empowering gift of language when all of us have a critical lens; that is our best defense against “the emotional simplicity and terrible beauty of lies.” We are indebted to Joe Kincheloe more than we can express, but we are driven here by his compassion and by the gifts afforded us in the praxis and words of Paulo Freire.