Hi everyone,
Take a look at this link, which may interest many of you. You can help take students to see the play "White Noise" in Chicago. It's a timely theme, unfortunately, that shows how the music/entertainment industry packages hate as acceptable and consumable pop culture. If you click on the link above, you will also see that there are many teaching materials that go along with the play.
By the way, more Unlearning your Miseducation on the way. My brain has been simmering on a few issues but is nearing the boiling point.
Jeff
“Our schools are a vignette of how man, in the development of civilization and its core institutions, has managed to ignore or disregard some of the most compelling aspects of his own nature. But how long can we go on this way?” Edward T. Hall
There is an (in)famous landfill in Manila called the Smokey Mountains. pass4sure VCP-510 It's a huge garbage dump where people called "scavengers" pick through the rubbish looking for recyclables or anything else of value that can be used or sold. Here is a video some folks took a few years ago that gives you a sense of some of the basic issues and living conditions. It ends with a VCP-510 examcollection pretty moving musical montage:
ReplyDeleteIt also made me understand "social justice" as something very different from the way I had thought and written about it to that point. I saw such incredible poverty, schools with nothing (literally, in a few cases holi rangoli not even a building), but committed teachers and administrators working hard for the students. And by "working hard" I mean holi celebrations tremendous sacrifices, the likes of which I had never before considered.
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