Dahee Park

Professor Alice Lesnick

23 February 2016

Critical Issues in Education

Reflection #2

Sorry everyone I completely forgot to post!

Dewey and the Importance of Student’s Voices in Their Own Education

By: Sophie Webb

Grace Boda Guest Speaker

Work focused on individuals in high stakes and roles around how to make conflict not be destructive and be generative instead.

collaboration, participatory planning, facilitating high stakes convo, transforming dynamics, empowering leaders

A big agenda of hopefulness can meet up against serious challenges, like difficulty, harm, fear, distress/

Those of us who work with and for change are going to be able to bounce ideas off of her

integrating adult development with a concern for social change

Reading All About Love by bell hooks has gotten me thinking so much about the ways in which lies and deception playing into our daily relationships, have sullied the love that we are supposed to be feeling. There was so much there about how we have been schooled on lying as children, have learned to lie in order to escape punishment (34). Telling the truth causes pain, so we learn to lie for others. We believe, wrongly, that love is about lying to protect those we love, and this is something that is especially ingrained in us, as women, since we are socialized to be caring toward others, to put others' feelings over our own survival and healing.

I recall getting back my plate and secretly wishing that it had turned into something extraordinary—something weird, beautiful, or hideous—anything really, as long as it’s different from the way I drew them. Instead, I saw red and yellow wave patterns lining up perfectly on the plates, exactly the way I painted them. Disappointed, I turned my head to my right and saw Mary’s plate. It was amazing. A small black mountain growing out of a regular agar plate. It was absolutely amazing. In retrospect, I am struck by how the plates became the perfect metaphors for our lives.