Hi everyone! This week's Duncan-Andrade article reminded me of this Storycorps interview I heard on NPR a few months ago, so just thought I would post it.  Specifically it felt connected to comparisons of student-teacher relationships to child-parent relationships.  It's super brief, and definitely worth a listen.

Here are some notes from my site sit last Friday (that I’m just putting up now) and my musings about ecofeminism.

            Of course there is an immediate inclination to say that art should be preserved in its original state, but I did appreciate the idea of art being permeable and open to the changing times. Especially since art often reflects the time period it tries to depict, it would be interesting to see the entangled comparison between how people of a certain time period perceived their realities and how people today feel about those historical moments. This would change the role of paintings from mostly preserving ideas, notions, opinions, and beliefs of a certain time period to being a representation of how people, customs, and “truths” change or continue.

            Ira Shor examines the most effective ways to encourage students to challenge the status quo: “We need to discuss how the dialogic teacher works so that he or she is an artist in doing these unvelings” (Freire and Shor 97). How do we question students without instilling the notion that their ideas, values, or principles are not effective, helpful, or useful?

Evidently, this post is late…

But in reflecting back to our time spent in the classroom on a cold March 31st, I realize that my forgetting to post about it in and of itself was telling. The classroom space didn’t enter into the conversation at all; it simply existed, and we ignored it in order to focus in on the ideas at hand. When we are outside, birds and dirt and insects join in on the conversation with their own languages and metaphors, offering up comments through song and movement, speech that derails the human-centered “me.”

I know my post is very late and I apologize about that.

On Thursday Mumia's wife Wadiya Jamal visited him. She shared with us that his weakened state CONTINUES, and she is deeply concerned that he still has not had the appropriate care and diagnosis-- and in fact has been returned to the environment that allowed his chronic but treatable conditions to nearly kill him. 

I would appreciate it if all of us could take a couple minutes of our time to support this cause by calling the numbers listed below.