In what immediate ways can care transform the classroom for both students and teachers?What does care look like in a school system driven by capitalism? Can those even coexist?How can care […]
I really appreciated your post, August, and especially these questions – “But are we checking student well-being? Are we checking care and teacher relationships? Are we measuring student comfort and school […]
I felt the two readings this week deeply. In particular, this line stood out to me in the second article: “King argued that Meier had “failed to comprehend the difference between integration as the demise of s […]
The readings this week highlighted for me how deeply ingrained individualism is within schools and within education discourse. This was perhaps best encapsulated by Duncan-Andrade’s citation of Maslow’s […]
Hi Lindsay,
I really appreciated your comments! In particular, this line struck me: “the idea of the illusion of individualism and the reality of collectivism”. The contrast of individualism and collectivism […]
Hi August,
Your question really gets to the heart of everything – “Is critical care necessarily a collective practice?” Questions about hierarchy kept coming up for me in the reading, too, and it seems like the […]
A couple of things stood out to me when reading the article this week. First, I was struck by the fact that the IRB didn’t allow Rivera-McCutchen to include “student, parent, and teacher participants in the stud […]
Hi Fatima,
I also thought about the Community Control movement a lot when reading the articles for this week! Especially when watching the video about CC9 – so many aspects of the work of the coalitions reminded […]
The readings and video this week made me think a lot about the fundamental purpose of schools, and who gets to determine and measure that purpose. In particular, they made me think about the concept of […]
Hi Sohini,
Your comments – this week and last – have really resonated with me, especially the way you explicitly name how capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy delusion/anti-Blackness work together to sever […]
I really enjoyed this week’s readings, both because of their hopefulness and openness, and also because they engaged so many concepts that are often explicitly omitted or erased from the discourse about t […]
I really appreciated the questions you raised here, and also your close look at the actual language of NYC DOE policy around culturally sustaining pedagogy. The question of what’s happening in schools of education […]
The readings this week pushed me to grapple with my own disillusionment with the power that principals could have to make real transformative change in schools, or shape schools to be liberatory, in an oppressive […]
Yes, August, me too! That line about “rescuing” in the Bass article really threw me off, I’m glad you both brought it up. It seemed misaligned with the care that Bass was describing, and much more aligned with t […]
I was struck by Beauboeuf-Lafontant’s (2002) discussion of mothering, motherhood, and “other mothering,” and in particular by the way she named the distinction between motherhood as defined within a capit […]
Hi Jordan,
I also agree with Miguel’s response to your post – there is power in naming the issue and being “very specific” about it. And I also agree with you about the power of naming anti-Blackness and the way […]
The piece that I was struck most by in the Dixson article was the exploration of property and in particular whiteness as property, as it plays out in the “culture of Whiteness” of teacher education programs, and […]
