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Pedagogy of the Young at Heart

9th March 2022The Library of the FuturePaulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Heart, Under the Mango TreeMinus Plato

RADICAL PEDAGOGY IS NOT about narcissism Narcissus is always looking for her/his/their own reflection self-reflecting: Hey guys! Something with your eyes! Decolonize your guise! Does size matter, otherwise? De-phallocentricize? De-logocentricize? De-anthropocentricize? De-centricize Za-zee-zy-ci-say-wi-fi-csi-9-see-centric Eccentric like a clown, like a fool gettin’ down Like the shepherd gettin’ laid, am I overpaid? From ‘RADICAL PEDAGOGY’, the collective […]

A Pinch of Compost: Herbert Read under the Mango Tree

14th July 2021Uncategorizedaneducation, Carmen José, documenta 14, Herbert Read, Paulo Friere, Under the Mango TreeMinus Plato

My favourite symbol is the Tree of Life. The human race is the trunk and branches of this tree and individual humans are the leaves, which appear for one season, flourish for a summer and then die. I am like a leaf of this tree, and one day I shall decay and fall, and become […]

A New Solitude in the Stacks

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Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]

Whose Canon? Bringing Iphigenia and Plato Closer to Home [T]he canon, that transparent decanter of Western values – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Whose Canon is it, anyway?”, in Group Material Democracy (Education and Democracy section), p. 72. Dominant ideologies, usually with a nationalistic streak, have used the classical canon as a propaganda machine—primarily through […]