My hiatus from this blog was much longer than I expected, but now I'm finally feeling like I can come up from air after moving from Missouri to Iowa. We're now in Ames at Iowa State University. It's been a great move so far but also one accompanied by the usual getting-up-to-speed dynamics...finding a grocery store, getting the kids settled and into various activities, getting to know a new job and new colleagues, etc.
Now, on the blog...
I have decided to re-conceptualize Unlearn Your Miseducation to a degree. Moving forward it will take the form of a project that will seek to do three things:
deconstruct. reconstruct. lead.
My plan is to choose one topic each month and to look closely at said topic in some detail. Of course, a month isn't enough time to REALLY get into great detail, so without making promises on the level of depth, I'd like instead to just say that...my goal here is to learn, and to share that learning (and my interpretation of the lessons) in this public forum. The topics will include racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, colonialism, and other psychological-social-cultural-political issues. I'm looking to learn here, and I invite you to come along and teach, learn or lurk.
Some of these first posts will center on concepts like learning, mislearning, education, miseducation, propaganda and the like. Then, I'll dive into the other topics I list out above.
Thanks to those of you who have hung in here with me while I've been away. Talk to you soon...
Cheers,
Jeff
