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Kairos: A Time For Educational Transformation, Lisa M. Wennerth
Kairos: A Time For Educational Transformation, Lisa M. Wennerth
New Jersey English Journal
This paper explores a high school English teacher's experience of facing the current problems in today's traditional K-12 public school system and their quest to find answers in Critical Pedagogy, Inquiry Based Learning, student centered curricula, and ungrading practices.
Their American Dream, Danne Davis
Their American Dream, Danne Davis
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
Centuries before W.E.B. DuBois named the colorline—i.e., racism—as the problem of the 20th century, skin color stratification was a persistent phenomenon. In 1983 Black feminist, scholar, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker termed “colorism” as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their [skin] color”. Using the tools of genealogy, I conducted a critical family history of my parents, Lem and Mae’s, pursuit of their American Dream. Such exploration digs deep to decipher the nexuses of a family’s evolution. Dr. Maya Angelou routinely shared stories about her past to impart the importance of embracing one’s history. …