Tag: carceraleducation

• Episode # 70: There But for Fortune with Michael Fischer

  What’s the worst thing you ever did in your life? OK, stop blushing, and be honest. Are you sure you haven’t repressed, suppressed, and forgotten the most unkind or terrible or illegal or unjust things you’ve done? Think harder. What were the consequences of your actions for others, and for yourself? I’m joined in conversation…

  April 5, 2023

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  authors, carceraleducation, crime, education, grace, incarceration, justice, liberation, Michael Fischer, solidarity, teacher, writer

• Episode 62: “Freedom Has Always Been the Horizon” with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project

  Authentic learning requires free thought—curiosity, inquiry, imagination, initiative, problem-posing, question-asking. Learning is undermined when students are inspected, spied upon, regulated, appraised, censured, measured, registered, counted, admonished, checked off, prevented, and sermonized. In this episode we visit a unique college commencement ceremony—filled with joy and pain—and explore with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and University…

  November 30, 2022

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  abolition, activists, carceraleducation, college commencement, education, educators, freedom, p-nap, prison, prison + neighborhood arts/education project, prison abolition, radical education, teaching for freedom, university without walls

• Episode 27: Adam Bush

  The stories people tell and share can become powerful tools against propaganda, political dogma, and all manner of impositions and stereotypes. Seeking honesty and authenticity in stories means oral historians become attuned, to contradiction—to disagreements, silences, negation, denials, inconsistencies, confusion, challenges, turmoil, puzzlement, commotion, ambiguities, paradoxes, disputes, and uncertainty. Oral historians (like teachers) dive head-first…

  March 30, 2021

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  adulteducation, carceraleducation, collegeunbound, education, teacher activist