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A Morning After: Ukraine, Putin, and the Attack on Democracy

Posted on: February 25, 2022 by
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Ukraine Crisis

INTRODUCTORY NOTE:  I have been in a period of personal and professional reorganization following a major health scare. From June through September I was in treatment for throat cancer following 2 months of diagnosis and testing. The chemo and radiation therapy I underwent destroyed what had been a malignant tumor at the base of my tongue, and this good news […] Read Moreabout A Morning After: Ukraine, Putin, and the Attack on Democracy

Beginning Again: On Knowledge democracy and Culture Circles in America

Posted on: July 30, 2021 by
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Beginning Again: On Knowledge democracy and Culture Circles in America

Knowledge democracy is a phrase that refers to long-standing conflicts over what constitutes knowledge and whose knowledge counts. The phrase has been advanced as a kind of platform for resistance to the domination of what long-time scholar-activists Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon (2017) describe as a small band of knowledge systems created by white male scientists in Europe some 500 […] Read Moreabout Beginning Again: On Knowledge democracy and Culture Circles in America

On Reading the World in 2020-2021

Posted on: July 15, 2021 by
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On Reading the World in 2020-2021

Book clubs can be a worthwhile and enjoyable activity. It is generally estimated that more than 5 million people in the US now participate in Book Clubs, with club popularity increasing over the past several decades.[i] With a history that in some form goes back several centuries, a core premise of book clubs is that reading is a pleasure and […] Read Moreabout On Reading the World in 2020-2021

The SPF Blog: Issues in Practitioner Research, Policy Making in Helping Professions and Social Change

Posted on: July 1, 2021 by
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Knowledge Democracy first assembly

Around six years ago my wife and I were beginning to have some serious conversations about our upcoming retirements from higher education including our evolving views of what we had accomplished as teachers and as scholars in education, where we had fallen short in our original goals and aspirations, and what we wanted to do for the after-retirement period. We […] Read Moreabout The SPF Blog: Issues in Practitioner Research, Policy Making in Helping Professions and Social Change