Monday, May 5, 2014

5-5-14 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):









Consumed by the Digital Divide

The term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to keep the focus on observable or measurable outcomes, and thus, distract attention away from the inequity of opportunity that is likely the foundational source of those outcomes. Currently, South Carolina appe


5-4-14 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): Celebrities, Thank You, But…My formative years, thanks to my mother, included George Carlin, The Firesign Theater, and Richard Pryor. I am convinced a powerful line from Carlin to Kurt Vonnegut remains the most important foundation of who I am outside of the people direc