Tuesday, February 25, 2014

2-25-14 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):













What Shall We Do About Reading Today? (1942)
What Shall We Do About Reading Today? (1942).
Ralph Ellison, a Century: From Unseen to Misseen
With his Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s narrator announced on the first page: “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Ralph Ellison – March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994 And with this novel, the ironies become so layered that “irony” likely isn’t sufficient. Many see only Invisible Man when they hear Ellison’s name. And Ellison’s entry into the exclusive and mostly white a
2-24-14 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): Knowledge: Not If, but How (and Who Decides)As I have posted before, progressivism and whole language have a long history of being blamed for failure when in reality neither has been practiced in any substantial way by teachers. While school policies and classroom practi