As Trump Tweets…
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Listening, Improv, & Fostering Digital Literacy: Discussion in the Post-Election Classroom
Originally written for Baruch College’s Center for Teaching and Learning on November 22, 2016. Last week I was asked to cover a…
Educational Technologies, Student Learning, & the University as a Public Good
This essay was presented on July 21, 2016 as part of my Qualifying Exams for my PhD in the Environmental…
Day -70
Four years is a long time. I am writing this because I don’t want to forget how shitty/devastated/scared/uncertain/confused/disempowered/motivated I felt this…
From worried to inspired: Reflecting on the meaning and practice of participation
Although I have constantly advocated for the promotion of participation, especially the participation of children, I am not unaffected by…
Children’s rights in New York City, the next 25 years
On this day 25 years ago, New York City made a bold statement in affirming its commitment to children in…
Orienting my research
As Jessica Kulynych posits, society’s failure to recognize youth political identity is evidence of an incomplete democracy (2001). Yet, our…
Orienting my research
As Jessica Kulynych posits, society’s failure to recognize youth political identity is evidence of an incomplete democracy (2001). Yet, our…
Reflections on rupture and scale after #Ferguson
In these moments after the world turned its eyes towards Ferguson, and reading essays that have come forth analyzing and…
Creating spaces for children’s everyday political development
Hart, R. (2014). Children, self-governance and citizenship. In C. Burke & K. Jones (Eds.), Education, Childhood and Anarchism: Talking Colin…
Shifting the conceptions of childhood to include children’s political identities
While much of the public media still frames childhood within the debates of children at risk or children as risk,…
The tensions between theory and practice in engaging youth in participatory governance
The tension between theory and practice plays out differently in children’s participation than in the field of participatory democracy and…
