Recently added articles from Radical Teacher:
Introduction: teaching post-colonial literatures in the age of empire.
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are colonialism and imperialism over and done with? On its face this would seem to be the case, at least as measured by the United Nations' membership roll call. From Martinique to Angola, Tasmania to Lebanon, Cambodia or Zanzibar, previously colonized ...
Reading the difficult text.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Can we convince our students that a part-time job at Wal-Mart or Barnes and Noble will help to create a global, collective democracy? It's doubtful: most of the students I have talked to about their jobs at mega corporations believe they are, and I quote exactly, "selling out to the Man." ...
Hybrid positioning and student agency in the post-colonial Americas: why teaching American Indian literature matters.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each semester in the classroom, I am reminded of the ongoing burden of colonial ideologies: the erasure of groups of peoples, essentialism, and ahistorical assumptions about the self and the other. Despite the civil rights movements of past decades, our ...
The promise of tourism: colonial imagery in advertising.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place The upmarket Indian hoteliers didn't try to make India a home away from home. q-hey set out to show that India ...
Teaching transnationally: queer studies and imperialist legacies in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.
Jun 22, 2008; ... For the past few years, I have taught Monique Truong's 2003 novel, The Book of Salt as the final unit in an upper-division general education Women Studies course on queer literature. The course, Lesbian and Queer Perspectives on Literature and Media, draws students from a range of academic ...
The postcolonial student: learning the ethics of global solidarity in an English classroom.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the fall of 2006, I planned and taught my first course in post-colonial literature as a full-time faculty member of Kent State University's English department. (1) This essay provides a brief discussion of the teaching strategies, the literary texts, ...
A tribute to Elizabeth Powell (1930-2007).(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... In late 2007 we lost our dear friend and long-time comrade and Art Director Liz Powell. In our 2008 Radical Teacher issues, we are featuring images from her extensive collection of drawings and cartoons, many of which appeared in the pages of Radical Teacher over ...
Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism By Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo (Sense Publishers, 2007) When I was in school, "imperialism" meant ancient Rome or eighteenth and nineteenth century Great Britain. As far as my high ...
Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change. Edited by Jim Downs (Routledge, 2005) This quietly impressive anthology gathers papers presented from the second of two recent Columbia University conferences organized by Jim Downs of ...
Searching for an authentic Filipino voice: F. Sionil Jose's Dusk.(Teaching Notes)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The space that I inhabit is not my own. It is a space that shifts: where imperial and native cultures mingle, where traditions of the past and imaginings of the future coalesce in the present, where a sense of belonging eludes definitive place. As a Filipino American, I empathize with this ...
Teachers of Religion, Religion of Teachers.(Teaching Notes)
Jun 22, 2008; ... "You are a Christian?" When students put this rhetorical question to their professors, how should their teachers respond? "Religion is a private matter." "That's none of your business." "Of course, I am a Christian." "Sorry to inform you, but I'm a staunch atheist." Of course, ...
Call for Teaching Notes for Radical Teacher.(Teaching Notes)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Is there a book, film, essay, poem, or story you've found particularly useful in the classroom and want to share with other Radical Teacher readers? We are especially interested in Teaching Notes on new materials not widely known, but we would also like to hear about newly rediscovered ...
Part-time teaching.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... This year's report by the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics provides evidence that the majority of full-time professional employees in higher education are in administrative rather than faculty jobs. The report shows a shift between 2004, when 50.6 percent of ...
Academic repression.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... "Repress U" (The Nation, January 28, 2008) describes how Homeland Security is trying to create a homeland security campus in seven steps: 1. target dissidents like student peace and justice organizations; 2. turn campus police departments into heavily armed garrisons with a wide array of ...
Stereotypes and education.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Dutch professors have signed a petition protesting the exclusion of Iranian students from some Dutch universities. Resolution 1737 of the United Nations Security Council encourages member states, such as the Netherlands, to be cautious of Iranian students acquiring information which could ...
Endowments and rich schools.(News for Educational Workers)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Patricia J. Williams (The Nation, April 21, 2008) writes about elitist institutions like Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford instituting "significant tuition relief" to lower-income students, not necessarily from generosity but in response to the 2006 report by Margaret Spelling's Education ...
Student protest in high schools.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... The Baltimore Algebra Project, a student-run tutoring and advocacy project, organized a demonstration of about 150 high school and college students to protest Maryland's "historic underfunding" of public schools. Twenty five of these protestors, mostly high school students, were detained, ...
Gender and sexuality in education.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... A new group for gay and lesbian academics called Academic Circle meets in New York City for discussion, socializing and networking. The group meets once a month at the GLBT Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC. For more information, call (718-643-0394) or e-mail Marty at (mds789@earthlink.net). ...
International education unions.(News for Educational Workers)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... The Palestinian Teachers Union held a series of strikes starting on March 9, 2008. Teachers are demanding higher ...
Resources.(News for Educational Workers)
Jun 22, 2008 ... You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41, John March, editor, is the first anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression ever published. $17.99 from Amazon.com. The Center for Media and Democracy is publishing a "participatory project" on ...