National Poetry Month: “What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?”
National Poetry Month 2014 comes not on “little cat feet,” like Carl Sandberg’s “Fog,” but in the wake of Walter Dean Myers and his son, Christopher, responding to reports of the whitewashing of books for children. Walter Dean Myers explains: But there was something missing. I needed more than the characters in the Bible to identify with, or even the characters in Arthur Miller’s plays or my belov
4-2-14 the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): On Children and Childhoodchildren guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and being a teacher, when I was still teaching in the exact room where I had been a