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Dedication

Apr 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Dedicated to Rebecca Carver Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations University of North Carolina, Greensboro ... a great advocate of experiental education, fine writer, and fighter for social ...

Editorial

Apr 01, 2006; Steinberg, Shirley ... You'll be receiving this issue at the end of the Summer of 2006, and looking towards a healthy and productive remainder of the year. Many passages this year, including several beloved colleagues and friends, along with the scores of service women and men dying in the Middle East and the ...

A Dine (Navajo) Perspective on Self-Determination: An Exposition of an Egalitarian Place

Apr 01, 2006; Manuelito, Kathryn D ... On a sunny July morning, in 2000, high in the plateau country of the Ramah Navajo with pinon trees surrounding us, I sat next to an old man, who had just finished checking the rusty barbed wire and aging wooden fence posts of his small corn field. Even in his eighties the old man, hammer and ...

Thinking Philosophically

Apr 01, 2006; Hewitt, Randy ... I am a philosopher of education by training. While well warned by my mentors of the hazards inherent to my trade, I still have been stunned by the magnitude of the loneliness engendered, at least in part, by the disrepute that my trade has acquired. It has taken me only a short time at my ...

Crashes into the Silences We Carry: An Essay Review of Otto Santa Ana's (editor), Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education

Apr 01, 2006; Chávez, Rudolfo Chávez ... Otto Santa Ana (Editor) Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 Pp. xii + 311, Paperback $24.95 , ISBN 0-7425-2383-7 About a decade ago a cadre of students, along with Professor Otto Santa Ana, ...

Talking to Foucault: Examining Marginalization and Exclusion in Academic Science

Apr 01, 2006; McClam, Sherie ... Although we usually think about writing as a mode of "telling" about the social world, writing is not just a moping-up activity at the end of a research project. Writing is also a way of "knowing"-a method of discovery and analysis. By writing in different ways, we discover new aspects of our ...

Academic Achievement in an Age of Irresponsibility

Apr 01, 2006; Dichele, Anne M ... My children think I am a terrible mother. You see, I rarely "help" them do their homework. I also rarely "help" them do projects for school, such as the Egyptian project my younger son was required to do last year. The day the Egyptian project was due, I accompanied my son as he carried into ...

The Devils in Curriculum Studies: Multitude and Multiplicity

Apr 01, 2006; Reynolds, William M ... Political action aimed at transformation and liberation today can only be conducted on the basis of the multitude. (Hardt & Negri, 2004, p. 99) The threat to political order is perhaps even more clear: political thought since the time of the ancients has been based on the ...

Intersecting Systems: Abuse Implications for Teachers

Apr 01, 2006; Romo, Jaime J ... I began teaching in 1984 in a private Catholic high school, following three years of study for diocesan priesthood at St. John's Theologate in Camarillo, California. Since then, I have: taught poor, immigrant English language learners in a Los Angeles inner-city junior high and then in a San ...

After the Crash: Moving from a Discourse of Deficit to a Discourse of Potential

Apr 01, 2006; Delk, Jessica E ... We enter movie theaters or push play on our movie viewing equipment, with an anticipation of fulfillment, pleasure, sadness, laughter, or any combination of expectations that we perceive will be gained from glaring at a screen of colors and depictions for approximately two hours. Many movies ...

Border Crossing Identities: "Critical Multicultural Ways of Knowing"

Apr 01, 2006; Soto, Lourdes Diaz ... . . . there will be no peace in the Americas until there is justice for the earth and her children . . . -Leslie Marmon Silko (1996, p.154) Texts reviewed: Teja Arboleda. (1998). In the shadow of race: Growing up as a multiethnic, multicultural, and "multiracial" ...