When I read what one theorist, Dr. Merrifield, wrote about another theorist’s, Dr. Soja, book, my jaw dropped in ecstatic joy: “Maybe the real problem here is Soja’s prose.  It is far too remote and wordy, and often screams out for clear-spoken directness.  His verbosity militates against him really getting down deep, really immersing himself [...]

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School isn’t really about school. It’s a place to learn things so that when you are not in school you can live a thoughtful and compassionate life. In short, school is about non-school. This is important to consider because we forget it fairly often. It’s especially forgotten when Departments of Education publish report cards, not [...]

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In a foreword to Narratives of Social Justice Teaching, Ruth Vinz describes a sixth grade classroom in which—at the room’s center—is a boy in a cardboard box.  The boy, we later learn, is autistic, and when coaxed out of his box by the student-teacher he darts about the room, stands in defensive position with a [...]

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