August 2009

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C'mon Guys: why can't the media report for good instead of evil?

Posted Thu, 08/06/2009 - 00:34 by Andrew Hickey

While it has been a busy couple of weeks around the globe, particular attention in Australia has been turned towards the failed ‘terrorist attack’ on Holsworthy Military Barracks. Naturally, this sent media reporting into a frenzy, with one report particularly catching my eye and demonstrating that issues of violence are too easily confused by race and ethnicity.

Deborah Britzman Interview: Paulo Freire and the early days of Critical Pedagogy; Freud and Freire?

Deborah Britzman talks to the Project about Paulo Freire and the early days of Critical Pedagogy in North America through the lens of her work's focus: psychoanalysis. She also shares her knowledge of Project founder Joe Kincheloe.

 

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GLBTQ online high school: Solution or segregation? Can separate be equal?

Posted Mon, 08/10/2009 - 08:20 by lizjmeyer

Last week an announcement went out online informing the world of a new school available to GLBTQ youth everywhere: a virtual school "Where you can get a high quality education while receiving comprehensive support from adults and peers." This announcement was greeted by some bloggers with joy, but by many with ambivalence.  This has been the reaction anytime there has been a discussion of similar face-to-face schools for queer youth that are currently established in Toronto and NYC.  Some arguments against such programs say that they deprive students of important socialization experiences or puts them in a fake supportive bubble that doesn't prepare them for the "real world." 

Initiative Spain 2009 Conference

Posted Mon, 08/10/2009 - 09:35 by Anonymous
Date: 
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 20:00 - Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 20:00

MINI-CONGRESS FOR CRITICAL DISCUSSION

September 16-20, 2009

Sede Antonio Machado, Plaza de Santa Cruz s/n. Baeza, Jaén, España

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Welcome to Teacher Forums

Posted Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:08 by carefulMEDIA

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Online Critical Pedagogy

Posted Thu, 08/13/2009 - 09:36 by Richard

I'm doing some preliminary work for a paper on 'critical online pedagogy' or 'online critical pedagogy' which is part of what brought me to the Freire Project.

Aside from Papert and Pinkert and a few others who seem to come up all the time on this subject, who do you see as being the scholars who would make it to the reading list?

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Newsletter on Multilingual education

Posted Sun, 08/16/2009 - 12:32 by Mahendra Kumar ...

 

 I would like  you all to  kindly  read the newsletter  on Multilingual Education, March  2009 issue.

Click on the image to the left to download the pdf file attached to this blog (or click on the link under "Attachment" below).

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Magic of Mother Tongue

Posted Sun, 08/16/2009 - 21:50 by Mahendra Kumar ...

 This is a case study in a  Koya  village  school Kambada where  the children  of class I  were belong to  Koya  community and were unable to understand the school language.When they were given the opportunity to  speak , read   and write in their own languague  they   were  happy  to understand the content and took part with the teachers with out  fer   and hesitation. Rather they were so happy to discover that teachers use  childrens  language in schools.