Phila. Teachers Plan Black Lives Matter Week--Not All are Happy
By jccohenJanuary 22, 2017 - 08:39
What does this suggest about curriculum--who creates and implements it? the role of teachers here?
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January 22, 2017 - 08:39
Black Lives Week of Action Comes to Philly Schools
By jccohenJanuary 21, 2017 - 18:26
Check out these events for the coming week:
360 Reflection
By nkechiDecember 16, 2016 - 12:57
i've been avoiding this.
where you were when we began this 360° process, where you are now, and what’s been happening in between. How-and-what have you been learning? Where do you think that the edges of your learning now lie? In what ways has your understanding been expanded, challenged, or complexified in this 360°? Be sure to include reflections on the degree of your critical, active engagement with the portion of the cluster devoted to the creation of our exhibit.
Learn Where Your Power Lies
By EmmaPNovember 21, 2016 - 20:02
"If the half of Americans who say they would join an anti climate change campaign did maybe it is not impossible that they could change the system from the inside, and wouldn’t have to eradicate it." I agree with what starfish is saying about how everything is not necessarily hopeless, and how change is possible without complete participation.
Letter of Sanctuary and Solidarity from BMC English House
By Anne DalkeNovember 15, 2016 - 10:57
We in English House - the Department of English, Creative Writing and the Writing Program - declare unambiguously that we stand with all the vulnerable populations targeted during and after the election. The literature and theory we read in our classes teaches us that we cannot be silent in the face of discrimination and injustice, and the critical work we do in our classrooms gives us tools to interrogate white supremacy, racism, heteropatriachy, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, misogyny, sexual abuse, nativism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, and classism. We are committed to developing critical consciousnesses and fighting for social justice for all who are marginalized and maligned.
“What Will You Gain When You Lose?”: Disability Gain, Creativity, & Human Difference
By nbarkerNovember 28, 2014 - 20:34
As society frames it, disability is a loss and a deficit—seemingly pathological in its very existence. This is also the personal experience of a large portion of the disability community. Acquired disability is perhaps the best example of this: many people, your author included, experience acquired disability as a profound sense of loss, and a source of despair.
What if, instead, we reframed disability of all kinds as a source of gain, as the Deaf community has? This is a large part of the mission of the Disability Studies field, seeking to reframe disability as not just a loss, a deficit, but instead an expression of human difference and variation, and thus a valuable part of the human experience.