Critical Pedagogies – serie

We live in a period of uncertainty characterized by climate change, the rise of populism, mass migration across borders, and severe economic, political and social inequities. To understand how these realities impact ourselves and each other, and what we can do about them, this book will create a "third space" for scholars, activists and practitioners across disciplines and sectors to engage in dialogues across differences using duoethnography (Norris & Sawyer, 2012). Through dialogical storytelling, each chapter shares experiences as a site of critical inquiry into the various 'isms' that frame inequities (racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Whiteness, ableism, religion oppression and more). This book is an opening and an invitation to engage in dialogue with/among each other as a means to mobilize in order to dismantle the systems and processes of power and privilege that sustain uncertainty.

Courses: Diversity courses; research methodology (duoethnography); racial and ethnic studies; multicultural education; sociology;  leadership and diversity; cross-disciplinary courses on current issues and social justice.

The Ecology of Me is a narrative project focusing on my notion of 'aesthetic functioning' as it relates to identity, culture and environmental issues and the possible intersection of these factors.  Its structure takes the form of an autobiographical narrative closely linked to ecological identity and its development in educators over time.  Using personal examples from my own life, I critically examine a number of poems or narrative texts written over the span of my educational development and ensuing academic career.  Centered on these texts, I also adopt critical literary analytical techniques to describe the context and backdrop for each of these forms of writing.  The volume consists of a series of poems coupled with photographic compositions and related narrative texts that further describe the cultural and political context for each work as well as my personal circumstances during the time of writing. Together, these form a working 'environmental autobiography' of sorts while also modeling the process of developing and maintaining one's own 'aesthetic functioning' in an increasing complex and technological world.