All posts in category pedagogy

Leadership revisited: from ruthless and reckless to thoughtful and wise

This week I finally had a chance to see the new documentary film that has a lot of people buzzing, MISSREPRESENTATION, written and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom.  The film clearly and graphically makes the argument that women are systematically objectified and dumbed down in the media, and that this is connected to the on-going [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 16, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on March 16, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/leadership-revisited-from-ruthless-and-reckless-to-thoughtful-and-wise/

Coming to you live from the studios of WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, Great Barrington….

This spring, students from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Monument Mountain Regional High School are getting ready to go on the air with a series of Citizen Journalism Project news shows, broadcasting stories of local, national and even international interest from the intimate studios of WBCR-LP in Great Barrington MA. In preparation, students in [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 10, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 10, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/coming-to-you-live-from-the-studios-of-wbcr-lp-97-7-fm-great-barrington/

A Crucible Moment in Education

There was some rolling of eyes in my community when President Obama announced he would like to see high school mandatory until age 18.  That’s because at Bard College of Simon’s Rock, my alma mater, where I’ve been teaching for the past 17 years, the standard procedure for students is to leave high school at [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 28, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 28, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/a-crucible-moment-in-education/

Censorship in Academe, 21st century style

Unfortunately, the banning of books by Mexican Americans in Tucson last week was not an isolated incident.  It’s part of a larger pattern in American education. At the elementary school level, it takes the form of resisting bilingual education for students whose family language is not English, and—for example—still teaching “Thanksgiving” as though it were [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 22, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 22, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/censorship-in-academe-21st-century-style/

The power of words for a world in crisis

So what am I, a Ph.D. in comparative literature with years of teaching experience in global women’s literature, gender studies and media studies, doing writing and thinking so much about the environment? Why am I spending time blogging rather than diligently writing research-based articles for peer-reviewed academic journals? I entered grad school part-time in 1984, [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 5, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Education, Environment, Human Rights, New stories, pedagogy, Politics, Politics of Gender, privilege, Social change
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 5, 2012

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/the-power-of-words-for-a-world-in-crisis/

Survival is not an academic skill

Yesterday I wrote that I intend to devote my second half of life (OK, let’s be real, we’re talking about  more like my last third of life at this point) to parenting and trying to change our global social systems to be sustainable and non-exploitative.  That intention rolled around in my head overnight, and I [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on December 27, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on December 27, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/survival-is-not-an-academic-skill/

A teachable moment at Penn State?

What is most shocking to me about the current scandal at Penn State (sports and sexual abuse of boys, in case you hadn’t heard) is the response of the students to the announcement last night that longtime head football coach Joe Paterno was fired. Do the hundreds of students who poured into the streets to [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 10, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Community, Education, Empathy, Health, Human Rights, pedagogy, Politics, Politics of Gender, privilege
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 10, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/a-teachable-moment-at-penn-state/

Student-driven learning: Diversity Day at Simon’s Rock

Tomorrow is Diversity Day at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, a day when regular classes are cancelled so that the whole student body can attend workshops prepared by students, with some faculty guidance, on a range of topics related to social difference. I am participating in three workshops: “Bros Before Hoes: When Male Loyalty Becomes [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 8, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Activism, Community, Education, pedagogy, Politics, Politics of Gender
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on November 8, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/student-driven-learning-diversity-day-at-simons-rock/

The minefield of unearned privilege: tread carefully!

It was not surprising when in a discussion of privilege in class the other day, we spent more time talking about affirmative action in higher education than we did about, say, white or male privilege. When I paused the conversation to point this out, some students suggested it might be due to their firsthand knowledge [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 21, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 21, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/the-minefield-of-unearned-privilege-tread-carefully/

Empathy: Igniting Force for Social Action

Now that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the importance of the Occupy Wall Street protests, I feel like I can go back to using this space to explore some other questions that have been niggling at me lately. Last week there were not one but TWO op-ed pieces in the NY Times [...]

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by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 3, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 3, 2011

http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/empathy-igniting-force-for-social-action/