for Educators



Here are some popular topics I address in lecture, course, workshop, or panel form.
My approach blends presentation, dialogue, and participation, designed to engage students in connecting theory to their lives, connecting to one another, and connecting to the world in creative cultural action.




Education as a Practice of Social Change

    -An introduction to education for critical consciousness and Paulo Freire in practice
    -History and background of liberatory education and social change in the US:
        Highlander, non-violence, and popular education
    -Learn by doing: practice and theory of generative themes, problem-posing, and dialogue



The Social Biography


    -Introduction of an element of "education as a practice of social change"
    -Know your story or someone will know it for you: understanding my life in context
    -Finding my voice: presenting my experience with meaning and authority
    -Democracy as the intersection of our social biographies


An Epistemology of  Liberation

    -Liberated from Education: the soul of Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    -Education as domestication
    -The craft of critical teaching


Beyond Social Charity to Social Justice: Working Toward Real Change

    -Introduction to analysis of power through problem-posing
    -What is liberation?
    -Dialectics of reform, revolution, and reconciliation




From 'Hood to the Movement: Working Class Experience, Identity, Culture, and Power

    -Stories from the territory (of the working class)
    -Everything but privilege: what makes working class experience distinct
    -Ain't trying to be no dictatorship: The historical task of the working class


Why We Are Here: The Role of Students of Color in Social Change

    -Our Social Biographies: A participatory introduction involving (and exploring) how
       each of us got here
    -Do I belong here? Wrestling with university and college reality
    -Transformers of higher learning: how people of color have changed and can change
      the academy
    -Going Home: dealing with being one of the first and few back in the territory


Critical Spirituality


    -Grounding and deepening our 'praxis' in our spiritual practices, beliefs, and traditions
    -The new openness to spirituality, healing, and reemergence as a practice of social change
    -Satyagraha, liberation theology, being the change: spirit, soul, and integrity
    "Critical Faith:" Story and theory of an experiment in leadership development














  


   for Educators