Teaching Community, Praxis, and Courage: A Foundations Pedagogy of Hope and Humanization
2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 45; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00131940802527209
ISSN1532-6993
Autores Tópico(s)Social Capital and Networks
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. For particular takes on collapsing community institutions, see Cummings (1998) Cummings, Scott. 1998. Left behind in Rosedale, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [Google Scholar]; "collapsing" American community, see Putnam (2000) Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon and Schuster. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; "social self loathing," see Meyer (2008) Meyer, Dick. 2008. Why We Hate us: American Discontent in the New Millennium, New York: Crown. [Google Scholar]; social isolation in America, see McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Brahsears (2006) McPherson, Miller, Smith-Lovin, Lynn and Brahsears, Matthew. 2006. Social isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades. American Sociological Review, 71: 353–375. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; or the general withering of community and connectedness through neoliberal policies (Solnit, 2004 Solnit, Rebecca. 2004. Hope in the Dark, New York: Nation Books. [Google Scholar]; Cavanaugh and Mander, 2004 Cavanaugh, John and Mander, Jerry. 2004. Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler. [Google Scholar]), disaster capitalism (Klein, 2007a Klein, Naomi. 2007a. The Shock Doctrine, New York: Metropolitan Books. [Google Scholar]), and fascist shifts (Wolf, 2007 Wolf, Naomi. 2007. The End of America. Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green. [Google Scholar]). 2. I was recently emboldened by Rebecca Martucewicz's "Editor's Corner" in the May/June, 2008, edition of this journal in which she provides a similar lament/reflection. 3. My approach and thinking about service learning (Renner, 2005 Renner, Adam. 2005. Caring Solidarity: Evolving a Theoretical and Practical Agenda for Service Learning and Pedagogy. The Kentucky Journal of Excellence, : 19–39. [Google Scholar]) is similar to others theorizing about "community-based service learning" (Sleeter, 2000 Sleeter, Christine. 2000. "Strengthening Multicultural Education with Community-Based Service Learning". In Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities, Edited by: O'Grady, Carolyn. 263–276. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Google Scholar]) and "community education" (Harris, 2005 Harris, Ian. 2005. Growing Foundations Through Community Education. Educational Studies, 38: 254–263. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]). 4. I am reminded here of the indigenous proverb: "If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." 5. Although, as this goes to press, a presidential election will occur that may reveal more about this war's possible direction, length, cost, etc. 6. The Heritage Foundation disputes claims that poor and/or Black soldiers are disproportionately sent off to die, or to risk their lives for wealthy White interests. Although admitting, "The Department of Defense does not track family income data for recruits, and there are no individual income data for enlistees," the Heritage Foundation claims that recruits come from, on average, families right at or above the median income for neighborhoods. And, although the statistical overrepresentation of African Americans in 2003 was significant, it has declined in both 2004 and 2005. The Congressional Research Service (2007) Congressional Research Service. 2007. American War and Military Operations Casualties http://www.fas.org/sgp/crp/NATSEC/RL32492.pdf(accessed December 22, 2008) [Google Scholar] reported recently on the Military Operations Casualties relative to the war in Iraq. For roughly the first year of the war (March 19, 2003–April 30, 2003), 37% of soldiers who died were non-White. From March 19, 2003–June 2, 2007, 22% of soldiers who died were non-White. In 2004, the Government Accounting Office found that African Americans disproportionately served and Whites were disproportionately underrepresented. Supporting this claim, Mark Adamschick, a captain in the U.S. Navy, reports that African-Americans comprise 22% of the military, yet only represent 12% of the population at large. 7. http://www.jhsph.edu/refugee/research/iraq/ 8. http://richgibson.com/apartheideducation.htm 9. See Viadero 2000; Lubienski 2001; Holloway 2004; Lee 2004; Cronin et al. 2005; Dobbs 2005; Lyons 2005; Snipes and Waters 2005; Johnson and Kritsonis 2006; and Mayers 2006, for a broad discussion on this widening gap between Black and White, rich and poor. 10. Although the Iraq War, the genocide in Darfur, Hurricane Katrina, and globalization (in the next section) deal with deadly physical consequences, I offer the NCLB Act, nonetheless, to indicate its potentially dire consequences. As Audre Lorde (1997) lyrically notes in Viet-nam Addenda, "Genocide doesn't mean only bombs." It is likely that NCLB has added to the intellectual demise of many of our students. It is also likely that it may contribute, ultimately, to their physical danger as well, because students trapped in the bottom rungs of this educational system will more than likely find prison, the military, and/or more dangerous occupations compared to their more successful peers. 11. However, interestingly, when asked about friends, many of the participants indicated that their friend's failure was related to a nondesire to be successful connected to acting White. 12. See http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/bi/cmtips.html for more information 12. A pseudonym. 14. This turn of phrase was offered at the Kentucky Alliance dinner held in Louisville, Kentucky in 2005 to honor the life and work of Anne Braden.
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