Add to ORKGIn wrestling with her teaching of Joseph Conrad’s frequently challenged novella, Heart of Darkness, a high school English teacher discovers her own complicity with and complacency about Western political, economic, and social hegemony. Ultimately, her research into the historical, social, and political contexts of the 19th century novella enable her to understand its immediate relevance to the privileged world that she and her students live in, and to take her students on a personal journey in the modern “heart of darkness.
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In wrestling with her teaching of Joseph Conrad’s frequently challenged novella, Heart of Darkness, ...
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We are always, always being swept along in a moment of becoming. Let us for once hold such a moment,...
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John Goodlad\u27s body of work speaks clearly to the responsibility of schools and those who impleme...
Recently, a colleague talked with me about a field observation she had conducted the day before, an ...
A few years ago, the two of us attended a Maxine Greene lecture at the Graduate Center of the City U...
The role of literature in democratic education has always been a subject of paramount importance to ...
Anne Cai always joked that, “one of these days,” school was going to drive her to insanity. A snapsh...
In wrestling with her teaching of Joseph Conrad’s frequently challenged novella, Heart of Darkness, ...
Original Minds paints a poignant and thought-provoking portrait of what it’s like to learn and think...
In the second week of its national release, the documentary film Waiting for Superman-- about Americ...
To move from a “model of scholarship where students are treated as passive vessels to be filled, to ...
Maxine has just blown out the candles on her 90th birthday cake. With expected brilliance, she speak...
Even at Oxford, critics are saying that students can achieve faultless results but lack intellectual...
There isn’t much room for dissenters in public education today – whether they are respectful or not....
We are always, always being swept along in a moment of becoming. Let us for once hold such a moment,...
School has been in session for a month; the ten- and eleven-year-old students are in the middle of a...
Suppose I decide to skip Carlin Romano’s latest pontification before blogging about him. Because I’m...
John Goodlad\u27s body of work speaks clearly to the responsibility of schools and those who impleme...
Recently, a colleague talked with me about a field observation she had conducted the day before, an ...
A few years ago, the two of us attended a Maxine Greene lecture at the Graduate Center of the City U...
The role of literature in democratic education has always been a subject of paramount importance to ...
Anne Cai always joked that, “one of these days,” school was going to drive her to insanity. A snapsh...