October 25...Privilege, Power and Difference

Johnson defines privilege in an unusual way. If, upon reading about his version of privilege, you recognized its existence in places/situations you hadn’t previously, please share (provided you feel comfortable sharing). Note: This can be a situation in which you are the beneficiary of privilege or one in which you are not.

Oct. 18...Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed can be a difficult read. I am less interested in seeing that you get deep into the specifics of Freire's ideas and more interested in using it as a way to begin to think about what critical pedagogy is and how and whether it has a place in today's public schools in the U.S. So, for this post, please ask a question about the reading or about critical pedagogy in general.

October 11...Traditional and Progressive Education

Welcome back to the blog after a little bit of "off-time." I want to keep this week's installment kind of open-ended. Please comment on what you've read (and listened to) about traditional and progressive education. You can consider how the readings compare to what you've experienced as a student, teacher educator, or other education-interested grown-up. You can also react to Kohn's belief that Hirsch is calling for a back to the old way approach when, in fact, progressive education has, according to Kohn, never been widely adopted in schools. Or feel free to find your own way into the discussion about our readings...