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Recently in one of my classes we were discussing food and our ecological footprint on the world. One topic that kept resurfacing was how many of my students would love to buy more organic foods but the cost is just too high. Not only is the price not right, the other main argument that many [...]

Over the past several years, my teaching has cultivated critical dialogue amongst students on social issues–education, gender, ethnic/racial conflict, classism, and so on. I raise questions; that’s what I do. Truth be told, my personal agenda is clearly a progressive one; although, I am very careful not to stack the deck against students with contrary [...]

Ivan Illich offers both a bleak view of contemporary institutionalized society and an inspiring vision of what could be in his 1970 treatise Deschooling Society. “Good radical stuff,” notes the Observer in its cover accolade. Indeed it is radical in the best and truest sense of the word as defined below: Radical. adj. Arising from [...]