I have taught, in some form, for a quarter century. I have taught high school course and for most of that time I have taught in higher education. I have taught countless first generation students, numerous non-traditional students, and students from various different economic, religious, and racial backgrounds. As such, over the course of my career I have developed strategies to make my classroom … Read More How to Make Our Classroom Welcoming for All
In “The White Christian and His Conscience,” Lillian Smith breaks down the ways that religion, specifically Christianity, works to maintain power and how it causes individuals to lose their conscience, causing them to live, ostensibly, with the warring teachings of Jesus and the white supremacist society they exist within. Smith, also, presents readers with analogies between Southern white Christians and Nazi Germany, at one … Read More We Must Transform the World!
+ education, jason stanley, Kristen Ghodsee, lillian e smith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, ta-nehisi coates
“Politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes this sentence amidst thinking about a school district in South Carolina debating whether or not to ban his book Between the World and Me and to fire the teacher, Mary, who assigned it in her Advanced Placement English course. As I reread The Message alongside Kristen Ghodsee’s Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from … Read More Why Do You Fear Education?: Why We Must Imagine a New World
When your mom told me she was pregnant with you, I was petrified. Even though we wanted to have a baby, I wasn’t truly ready. But, is anyone truly ready? I kept thinking about how I might mess up and cause you harm, either by dropping you on the ground (which did happen) or by hindering you from reaching your full potential. As you’ve … Read More Letter to My Daughter
+ american history, christian fascism, christian nationalism, christianity, education, history, religion
“Throughout this book,” the authors of America’s Providential History write, “we have seen that we must take action to assure that America is re-established on a firm Christian base, and hence, secure our God-given liberties and provide a free and prosperous platform from which we can go and make disciples of all the nations.” America’s Providential History is a Christian textbook used in homeschooling … Read More America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism
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