Dr. Joel Westheimer
from Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” Stuff Hosted by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
In Episode 60 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Joel Westheimer a Professor of Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa, musician, and the education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show. He is the author of What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good. We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign and day in United States, the Presidential Inauguration, political and economic mobilization of young men via social media, censorship, freedom of speech, backlash against universities, academic freedom, facilitating debates and pluriverse perspectives in the classroom, his new book, examples and differences between and among responsible, participatory, and/or social justice-orientated forms of citizenship, role of schools and teachers teaching for Democracy, authoritarianism in the gilded age of tech plutocracy, and so much more.
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