BY NICK FORTIER Orientation implies a process. When someone attends an orientation they generally expect to be oriented toward something: a culture, a code of conduct, an approach to the set of tasks at hand. Orientation also implies a direction or trajectory – a goal. Attendants are entering a new institution that they are hoping… Read More Orientation
BY JAMILA LYISCOTT The recurring articulation that “Black Lives Matter” throughout the 2014 social upheaval sparked by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO is an indictment on the United States of America at large. The urgency of chanting, screaming, branding, and making viral this fundamental truth means simply that as a nation we… Read More Inscribing Racial Justice: Black Lives, Literacy, and the Pedagogy of Racial Politics
BY KAMIYA KUMAR From the lens of peace education, I often struggle with what does peace education look like in schools? Does it mean teaching about the concept of war and peace? Could it mean re-aligning certain structures and systems so that structural violence is contested? Or could it also mean building a sense of… Read More Peace Education Reflections
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