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Important Press Conference regarding HB 55 tomorrow

We need to show up en masse tomorrow and make a statement that hate WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.  The details about the press conference are: “Todos Son Bienvenidos” Press Conference Opposing HB 55 Wednesday (tomorrow), January 20, 8:00 AM Rotunda… Continue Reading →

Oppression can be overcome by the very tools it uses

It stands to reason that equality is not a goal of the educational systems within this country. By their defined purposes that Kozol and Weber postulate, educational systems are designed to ensure that inequality is the served purpose. However, Thomas… Continue Reading →

Oppression can be overcome by the very tools it uses

It stands to reason that equality is not a goal of the educational systems within this country. By their defined purposes that Kozol and Weber postulate, educational systems are designed to ensure that inequality is the served purpose. However, Thomas… Continue Reading →

Education should lead to a sense of power — 2CEUs

An oppressive leader or teacher will have as his followers or students people who believe that life is a living death.  When a person does not see life as a mission to fulfill, “he or she is a person who… Continue Reading →

What is the purpose of education? 2CEUs

There was a time when  I had no real answer for the question, “What is the purpose of education?”  THe answer seemed to me to be both obvious and circular: The role of education was to educate students.  However, I… Continue Reading →

Towards a Critical Pedagogy (2CEUs)

Wink (2005) describes critical pedagogy as a way for people to become aware of their own contexts and their respective roles within those contexts.  Critical pedagogy calls for people to name their reality in their own terms, to reflect critically… Continue Reading →

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