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“Top Level Kids” and Accountability–A Radical Response

Posted Sun, 01/23/2011 - 22:06 by Paul Thomas

“Top Level Kids” and Accountability–A Radical Response

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Education reform unmasked

Posted Sat, 01/22/2011 - 21:37 by Paul Thomas

Recommended:
Let's Not "Reform" Public Education, Adam Bessie

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Re-contextualizing the classroom, Shannon Palus on critical pedagogy, and one McGill proponent

Posted Fri, 01/21/2011 - 10:35 by CritPed Webmaster

Article from the McGill Daily
 

Re-contextualizing the classroom
 

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The Struggle for Education in Haiti speaker Rea Dol

Posted Fri, 01/21/2011 - 10:31 by CritPed Webmaster

Haitian Activist Rea Dol spoke at McGill University yesterday. The event was packed, and there were several several youth from Maison des Jeunes. 
Video from the event will be uploaded soon. 

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Call for Chapter Proposals

Posted Mon, 01/10/2011 - 13:25 by Paul R Carr

 
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS 
FOR A BOOK ENTITLED
 
EDUCATING FOR PEACE IN A TIME OF PERMANENT WAR:
ARE SCHOOLS PART OF THE SOLUTION OR THE PROBLEM?
 

Paulo Freire Freedom School

Posted Sun, 01/09/2011 - 01:22 by Mehdi

The Freire Freedom School page
 

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Pedogogical responsibility, academic freedom, WikiLeaks and Professor Tom Flanagan

Posted Fri, 01/07/2011 - 20:59 by Bonnie Kaserman

 In late November 2010, Professor Tom Flanagan of the University of Calgary called for Assange's assassination.  He did so on national television (and, incidentally made it on to The Colbert Report for doing so).  Juanita Sundberg and I have written a piece about the implications of Professor Flanagan's statement in terms of academic freedom, its corresponding rights and responsibilities. What does it mean for academic freedom to call for an assassination as a means of dealing with political differences?   How does that coincide with our pedagogical responsibilities?

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ENSJ Fourth Annual Antiracist*Antibias Teaching Conference

Posted Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:39 by bonde-griggs

 Hi Freire Community,
Educators' Network for Social Justice has a few slots remaining for 60-minute interactive sessions and poster presentations. Most conference attendees are educators in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area (US). Last year, when I was conference chair, we had people leading workshops from the Milwaukee-area, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Florida. We had many great discussions about antiracist pedagogy, visited booths set up by area activists, including Rethinking Schools, and listened to Sonia Nieto give a wonderful keynote.

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Lessons from Vonnegut. . .ca. 1952

Posted Tue, 01/04/2011 - 08:52 by Paul Thomas

Thomas, P. L. (2011, January 3). Calculating the Corporate States of America: Revisiting Vonnegut's Player Piano. OpEdNews. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Calculating-the-Corporate-by-Paul-Thomas-110103-130.html

Winning the battle to lose the war

Posted Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:26 by anijar

Last spring teachers, parents and students in the state of Florida stood up and fought the state legislature's draconian Senate Bill 6, designed to privatize public education.
Our new Govenor -- Rick Scott is a businessman (well, actually a criminal with the largest fine ever levied against a company in history, but that is a story for another time). Rick Scott has come out with his education plan: "vouchers for all."

Racializing Robot English Instructors

Posted Wed, 12/29/2010 - 06:36 by jlaurion

A city in South Korea is making use of remotely controlled robots to teach English to elementary school students.
 Although there are multiple reasons I find this to be a bit unsettling, I am first struck (and disturbed) by the fact that "The robots, which display an avatar face of a Caucasian woman, are controlled remotely by teachers of English in the Philippines -- who can see and hear the children via a remote control system."

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Response to Newsweek interview with Gates and AFT president

Posted Tue, 12/28/2010 - 19:08 by Paul Thomas

Wrong questions = wrong answers: Legends of the fall, pt. IV. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/28/wrong-questions-wrong-answers-legend-of-the-fall-pt-iv/

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2nd Anniversary of Joe Kincheloe's Death

Posted Sun, 12/19/2010 - 03:07 by Shirley Steinberg

On December 14, Joe would have been 60 years old.  There would have been a huge party, and he would have told us all that he relished getting older, and that he had had the most wonderous life.  We all miss him, and his song, and now....2 years later, we celebrate his life on his yahrzeit.
Please take time to write a short blog about your memories and thoughts of Joe and his work.  He exemplified radical love, in every way, he was an authentic human being...he was loved.
If you go to the left of this screen, click on the bottom link:  Joe and Paulo...watch a 10 minute celebration of the lives of two great men.
 
Shirley

Violence

Posted Sat, 12/18/2010 - 02:02 by Mehdi

'WHEN you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.'
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Hamdulillah Wins as Montreal Hip Hop Video of the Year....Peace and Love to Narcy....

Posted Thu, 12/16/2010 - 20:17 by Shirley Steinberg

 So much love and respect to Yassin, the Narcycist featuring Shadia Mansour in a video full of peace and hope.  

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Finnish Envy

Posted Thu, 12/16/2010 - 17:10 by Paul Thomas

Finnish Envy

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Feminist interventions, guerrilla statistics, women in the academy

Posted Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:23 by Bonnie Kaserman

 There's a fantastic new blog about feminism and the Canadian Academy called Hook and Eye.  It's edited by a trio of women academics and features contributions by guests twice a week.  Here's one I wrote about an intervention at a national conference regarding the status of women in my discipline.

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