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Paulo Freire

  • Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around

    Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me. Continue reading

    Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around

  • 2020 — SPRING TCCD-NE Course

    My current course in Introduction to Philosophy: Reading schedule, readings, and assignments. If you are not one of my students, you are still welcome to read along with us. Continue reading

    2020 — SPRING TCCD-NE Course

  • Relentlessly and randomly curious

    When you’re curious about something, you’re pulled off in multiple directions. Your eye can be snagged by some seemingly inconsequential dimension. ~ Tyson Lewis Continue reading

    Relentlessly and randomly curious

  • 2019 — Summer Course

    Here you will find the readings for my 2019 Summer II course. Check back frequently for updates. Back to Call Me Maggie homepage Have the assigned readings completed by the time you get to class. The first part of class… Continue reading

    2019 — Summer Course

  • AnarchoCynic Praxis, Faith and Sacred Tradition

    What makes our praxis specifically AnarchoCynic  concerns how we take on none of the authority to be gained from established hierarchies, seek to take no privileged position for ourselves, and specifically engage folks about the customs that hold most currency in our… Continue reading

  • AnarchoCynic Praxis

    While I am very knowledgeable about the workings of our political system–and I even vote, esp. locally–my energy and time goes to helping establish temporary autonomous zones wherein friends and allies can work together. If Paulo Freire is right that… Continue reading

  • Pedagogies within the Crises of Uncertainty

    I am having a very good time this semester studying one on one with one of the academics at the University of North Texas who has agreed to be on my dissertation committee down the line–when I get to that… Continue reading

    Pedagogies within the Crises of Uncertainty

  • Getting under way

    First class for  my 1:00pm iteration of Introduction to Philosophy on M – W – F. Continue reading

    Getting under way

  • 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

    My good sister, Stephanie E., with whom I am reading Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed sent me this article yesterday on FB. It details what the situation that Henry Giroux has been talking about in such texts as Youth… Continue reading

    8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

  • Whatever, Etc. 00024

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    Whatever, Etc. 00024

  • Whatever, Etc. 00023

    If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00023

  • How does Vandana Shiva do it?

    Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading

    How does Vandana Shiva do it?

  • Logocentrism and the Unpreparedness of [Top] Students

    A recent commentary at the Chronicle of Higher Education centers on the lack of preparedness among even top students entering college at even the most selective universities. Above all, it’s time to acknowledge that even top students may have college-readiness… Continue reading

    Logocentrism and the Unpreparedness of [Top] Students

  • Getting rich off of schoolchildren – Salon.com

    Thanks as always to John F. for pointing out a piece that I missed. Sirota delivers some good insights… standard operating procedure with him. It simply strains credulity to insist that pedagogues who get paid middling wages but nonetheless devote… Continue reading

    Getting rich off of schoolchildren – Salon.com

  • Overcoming Sectarianism

    Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicaliza-tion, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater… Continue reading

    Overcoming Sectarianism

  • Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Short documentary about Paulo Freire. Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility Directed and Produced by Dr. Shirley Steinberg,… See on www.youtube.com Related articles Jeopardized and Jeopardizing (keithwaynebrown.com) Paulo Freire (sourcewatch.org) Leading… Continue reading

    Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

  • Textimony 20130202

    Friendship cannot revolve around indebtedness & be a relation of excellence. Choose your companionships well: shall it be veiled vicious slavery or clear virtuous solidarity? Source: fineartamerica.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming… Continue reading

  • Dissent and Punishment in the Book of Life: Introduction to Henry Giroux’s “Youth in Revolt”

    Young people are demonstrating all over the world against a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services.1 In the fall of 2011, on the tenth anniversary of September 11,… Continue reading