“Critical Consciousness” and Pedagogy in Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray”

Tag: education

During my educational career, I sat in countless classroom regurgitating information back to the one at the head of the classroom who held my grades and my future in their hands. I felt, for the most part, disconnected from any of my experiences or reality. That does not mean that the information I learned did not relate to my life; it just means that … Read More “Critical Consciousness” and Pedagogy in Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray”

January 28, 2025 + education, jason stanley, Kristen Ghodsee, lillian e smith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, ta-nehisi coates

Why Do You Fear Education?: Why We Must Imagine a New World

by Matthew Teutsch

“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

July 26, 2024 + donald trump, chronicle of higher education, university, higher education, higher education in America, JD Vance, project 2025

What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I

by Matthew Teutsch

As he worked, over the past few weeks, to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Donald Trump announced that Senator J.D. Vance would be his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Likewise, since his nomination, Vance has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though a month ago he posted about writing the foreword for the President of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts’ new … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I

September 7, 2023 + critical literacy, critical thinking, Pedagogy, reading

Why Do I Read?

by Matthew Teutsch

As a kid, my mom would always encourage me to read. I read, yes, but it was never really anything that I did regularly. In fact, I really don’t remember much of what except that I read books like Judy Blume’s Super Fudge during elementary school or parts of Dante’s Inferno during high school. Nothing really stuck with me or had a huge impact … Read More Why Do I Read?

March 30, 2023 + american history, christian fascism, christian nationalism, christianity, education, history, religion

America’s Providential History: Dominionsim, Totalitarianism, and Fascism

by Matthew Teutsch

“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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“Critical Consciousness” and Pedagogy in Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray”

Tag: education