Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcendent Parenting
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transcendent-parenting-9780190088989?cc=us&lang=en&# Kevin Laddapong: In Transcendent Parenting, you argue t…
Two Schools at Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, 1863
There are a few reports that open the windows wide to a vision of the reservation, its changes, its struggles, and its …
Book Review: Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes by Diane Reay
In Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes, Diane Reay draws on interviews with over 500 children to explore the class inequalities that persist …
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Survey participants wanted: Music education in Porirua Schools
Do you know any young people who attend school in Porirua? I would like to invite them to participate in a survey …
Are Teaching and Learning Among the Things We Do For Love?
Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana of UCLA suggested that there is a “‘Love’ Revolution” underway in education as reaction against the punitive and …
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White + word Gap = wrong
With Netta Avineri and Eric J. Johnson, I’ve addressed a report in the Washington Post on the many contextual factors affecting children …
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After knocking: Picturing youth itineraries
Look at me and explain „who do you want to be in ten years?”. „I want to be a famous professor, living …
‘Mellencamp’s classroom tape’
John Mellencamp is one of my favorite rock singers. I find it fascinating how he depicts urban life. It is well-known that …
The Kids are more than all right
Both are seventeen. They are too young to vote in places like the US. But we need more of them! Malala! All …
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School Is War, Prison, Factory, Machine, Business, Game, Life….And Other Metaphors: recommending Permaculture
If metaphors organize our thinking and if there is no genuinely neutral way of speaking about anything, then it is worth looking into the dominant metaphors …
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“The Language Gap”: Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? The latest explanation for why children coming from disadvantaged households …
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