Citizenship in Global Space: Convergences and Departures
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Education for Global Citizenship “…increasing calls for educational provision to develop a more global orientation.” Mark Priestly, Gert Biesta, Gren Mannion and Hamish...
View ArticleTeaching in the Patriarchy
Image courtesy of Christopher Dombres Even as we might strive to discuss Herstory and the silencing of minority voices in our curriculum, it is startlingly easy to perpetuate and recreate the same...
View ArticleLit Review Twitter Essay
This is the sort of thing that might otherwise be relegated to an aggregated Storify or series of screenshots. But as this afternoon’s series of Tweets was intended to partially sketch out the main...
View ArticleOn Parity
When asked why he had made gender parity in his cabinet a priority, new Prime Minister Trudeau shrugged and said simply: “Because it’s 2015.” With Prime Minister designate Justin Trudeau preparing to...
View ArticleThe Fragile Oppressor
An aspect of my work that has been the bane of my existence an educative experience in recent years has been the time I’ve spent around a group of variously conservative, middle aged white men, many...
View ArticleMEd Introduction: Personal & Critical Approaches
From Flickr user Sol LeWitt This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other...
View ArticleApathy & Oligarchy in the Public Sphere
Photo courtesy of Filippo Minelli. This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access...
View ArticleSinging Taylor Swift Songs
Introductions, Gender, and Amplification Every year in #introguitar (an open online guitar class I teach at my school, and which you should totally enrol in as a non-credit participant) I ask my...
View ArticleOn Reconciling Epistemic Enclosures
Democracy depends on the negotiation of common ground I’ve spent most of my life as a connector. I’ve always been something of a bridge-builder. Someone who can ‘see both sides’ (sometimes to a...
View ArticleAn Impossible Acknowledgement
I share these thoughts as a settler of living on the unceded territories of the Squamish and the Musqueam peoples in Port Moody, British Columbia. Acknowledging Hypocrisy A recent article in the New...
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