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Okay, these aren't my reflections, but they're valuable nonetheless. I guess you could call them reflections about reflections.
My brother is currently travelling through South America, on a bit of a 'find-yourself' tour. About now he's in Mendoza. He and I are staying in pretty regular contact via blogs and email, and one of the issues we've been discussing is the role of critical pedagogy in schools and higher education institutions.
I've taken the line that it's vital; before anything else, we must learn to think critically, and challenge the dominant ideology. Marc (my brother) on the other hand, has replied that teachers should focus, first and foremost, on basic literacy, numeracy and knowledge acquisition.

http://www.sharenews.com/local-news/2010/03/03/dr-george-dei-releases-new-books
From Share Magazine:

 
 
Dr. George Dei

Ghanaian-born, University of Toronto Professor Dr. George Dei has released four new books.
 

I found this story to be very interesting! Does anybody else know where homeschooling is illegal?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1968099,00.html

Hello everyone,
I am an educator born in Honduras and raised in the United States from the age of seven. I spent ten years working in education in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am now a doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong, working to build a pedagogy that will be relevant to low-income ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. I would love to hear from other educators in the region.
I started a blog at http://carlosesoto.wordpress.com/ and you can read a bit more about my work there.
 
Thanks for reading,
Carlos

I don’t want be just another kevetcher on the Olympic bandwagon, but we’ve been given so much to work with.  At first, I wanted to do a short piece, Charlie and the Inukshuk Factory.  It was to be based on my recent landings at the Vancouver Airport, only to be overwhelmed by the plastic and wooden Native simulacrum, and carwash brush-esque flag bombardment (printed with tribal symbols).  After dodging the “bring your tired, your poor and your humbled travelers to the res” themed baggage claim area, I was going to rant on about the neglected state of the urban reserve on Hastings, and Vancouver’s attempt to cover up the needs of our First Nations people.  But that sounded so bitt

I have just discovered that Joe Kincheloe died in 2008. 
 
My goodness, how could that have escaped my study until now?  Now it's true I'm new to this movement, and have not as of yet read any of his books (I'm ashamed to admit) but watching his interviews, and coming to this site, I had just assumed he and Shirely were the driving forces behind this exciting, vital, global, online movement.   Shirely, I am so sorry for your loss - one that I, in my unique existence, can not possibly fathom at this time.  I am so sorry. 
 

The renowned comedienne Wanda Sykes unleashed the following in I’ma Be Me, her latest HBO special: “We really do need to revamp our education system. It doesn’t work. It does not work. … We don’t learn anything. It’s not comprehension—it’s just retention, it’s just rote. That’s it. We just keep it long enough to spit it back out—pass the test, and we get rid of that sh--. … It’s like our brain’s a big Etch-A-Sketch.
 
At this Wanda began rattling her head vigorously, in like manner of a kid erasing scrawls from an Etch-A-Sketch pad, leaving audience members bent over from cracked ribs. But in jest, as is often said, much truth is told.
 

 Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to alert you to a forthcoming book I've published with Springer titled Paulo Freire: Teaching for Freedom and Transformation. The book is in the early stages of production and should be in print by late Spring. I would like to thank publicly Shirley Steinberg for support of the book and generously agreeing to write its foreword. The book is co-authored by John Dale, University of Indianapolis. Here's the back cover blurp: