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The Struggle Over Geography: Prospects For Advancing Public Pedagogy, Noel Castree
The Struggle Over Geography: Prospects For Advancing Public Pedagogy, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This commentary is sympathetic to Murphy's (2013) call for more 'grand regional narrative' in a public key. However, by failing to recognise the root causes of, and prevailing obstacles to, change, his call risks being purely declarative. I argue that only a few, typically established, geographers will be willing and able to occupy the ideational territory currently populated by the likes of Robert Kaplan. Even so, a few is better than none, and I also argue that teaching offers a more feasible, if indirect, arena in which public thinking about world geography can be shaped in ways consistent with Murphy's …
Practicing Critique, Attending To Truth: The Pedagogy Of Discriminatory Speech, Valerie Harwood, Mary Lou Rasmussen
Practicing Critique, Attending To Truth: The Pedagogy Of Discriminatory Speech, Valerie Harwood, Mary Lou Rasmussen
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Teaching in university education programmes, can, at times, involve the uncomfortable situation of discriminatory speech. A situation that has often occurred in our own teaching, and in those of our colleagues, is the citation of homophobic and heterosexist comments. These are comments that are more likely to occur in foundation subjects such as philosophy and sociology of education. The occurrence of such situations has prompted debate regarding ‘silencing words that wound’. This has prompted the question, ‘should we keep students from stating such discriminatory speech?’ Our article takes up this issue, and considers it from the perspective of the importance …