ISO: Plural Commons

Yancey begins her essay with mentioning Alaska, and of course I spent the remainder of my reading time devoted to seeing Sarah Palin’s name somewhere in the text. I was grossly disappointed by the sad lack of Palinisms within the text, and actually, I don’t know if I was disappointed by the text as a [...]

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What Is Love?

I was a bit less impressed by Kirklighter’s article than my one classmate who already posted on Freire.  My first reaction is one of mild displeasure that a term as important as “liberatory dialogue” isn’t overtly defined.  I can read between the lines and develop my own working definition of the practice, but with something [...]

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Where is the love?

I was sitting in the family room at my parents’ house earlier today, “Relevance” cracked open on my lap, when my brother suddenly sat up from his previously sprawling position next to me and said: “Oh, Freire. That sucks. Have fun with that.” Disheartening, for sure, since my brother is quite the critic, but our [...]

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Expectations

I read this and got pretty excited: “Literacy, Gender, and Adolescence: School-Sponsored English as Identity Maintenance.” It has the makings of something I’d love to read about; I am involved with literacy, I have a thing for gender and all its makings and transformations, and I deal with adolescents on a daily basis. Also– I [...]

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