Liberating Dissertation Writing: Life in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities in the U.S. South

This presentation was given during the Georgia Educational Research Association Annual Conference

Rhizomes Under Walls: Reclaiming Personal Agency Through Poetic Language and Personal Metaphor in Neoliberal Times

This presentation was given during the International Critical Media Literacy Conference

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eReaching and Teaching Students in Poverty\u3c/i\u3e

In his recently published book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap, Paul Gorski critically addresses concepts that perpetuate stereotypes of those categorized as members of the “culture of poverty.” This review provides a highlight of each chapter to illustrate some key concepts and teaching strategies that Gorski examines in his book

That’s Alright Mamma: How Southern Blacks Invented Rock and Roll

This presentation was given during the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative

Looking Deeper Than the Gradebook: Assessing Cultural Diversity Attitudes Among Pre-Service Teacher Candidates

This presentation was given during the Georgia Educational Research Association Annual Conference

More Than Words: Moving Currere Into the Universe of Discourse in Preservice Teacher Education

This presentation was given during the Georgia Educational Research Association Annual Conference

Radical Love in Teacher Education Praxis: Imagining the Real through Listening to Diverse Student Voices

Through Freire’s notion of praxis (1985, p.119) which gives centrality to critical self reflection in teaching toward social justice, in this paper I reflect on recently collected narratives gleaned from working with pre-service teachers. These stories reveal the unexpected rewards of seeking to create a prevailing culture of listening and respect for students’ unique perspectives. They also illustrate the challenges involved, in maintaining my own inward consciousness of self and place while cultivating this kind of milieu in the classroom. Within this dynamic tension in which both teacher and students learn from each other, there are tremendous possibilities to accept, affirm and confirm emerging teacher identities with the kind of sensibilities that are critically awakened to injustice and empowered as “beings of praxis” (Freire, 1985, p.112) in their own write

Exploring the Tensions Between Narrative Imagination and Official Knowledge Through The Life of Pi

This presentation was given during the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative

Oscillating Fracture in Rubber

We have found an oscillating instability of fast-running cracks in thin rubber sheets. A well-defined transition from straight to oscillating cracks occurs as the amount of biaxial strain increases. Measurements of the amplitude and wavelength of the oscillation near the onset of this instability indicate that the instability is a Hopf bifurcation

Effects of varying management levels of crops and livestock on optimal farm organizations

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