Popular Education
This week was the third and last online class. I found them
surprisingly to be a lot of work as we
wrote to one another instead of speaking with one another. Writing requires me
to be more focused and to be more exact, all good things. We read some articles
and responded to them. The theme of the articles was how to navigate the
current educational atmosphere, testing requirements, with heart felt teaching.
It continued upon that theme, touched upon cultural issues, ethnicity, and
class. But it did more than try to define the problem it also tried to empower
educators to act upon curriculum, lessons, attitudes, and the like, to be a
force of positive change. The articles had the common undercurrent of putting
education in the hands of the educated, community, and the educators. What follows below are my first explorations into another approach to education.
About On Being
On Being
is a spacious conversation — and an evolving media space — about the
big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science
of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.
The program began as an occasional series on Minnesota Public Radio in
1999, then became a monthly national program in September 2001, and
launched as a weekly program titled Speaking of Faith in the summer of 2003.
On Being, as the show was re-named in 2010, is now heard on hundreds of public radio stations in the U.S. and globally via Internet and podcast. In 2008, the program was awarded the highest honors in both broadcasting and electronic media — our first Peabody and our second Webby Award. On Being is the only public radio program in the U.S. to achieve this distinction.
On Being, as the show was re-named in 2010, is now heard on hundreds of public radio stations in the U.S. and globally via Internet and podcast. In 2008, the program was awarded the highest honors in both broadcasting and electronic media — our first Peabody and our second Webby Award. On Being is the only public radio program in the U.S. to achieve this distinction.
Rami Nashashibi's American Dream
January 31, 2013
A
globally admired voice of an emerging Muslim American dream. Rami
Nashashibi uses graffiti, calligraphy, and hip hop in his work as a
healing force on the South Side of Chicago. He's an activist who
converges religious virtues, social action, and the arts. His life is a
creative response to ethical confusion in a world of disparity.
http://www.onbeing.org/program/rami-nashashibis-american-dream/5011
http://www.onbeing.org/program/rami-nashashibis-american-dream/5011
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