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The Critical Teaching and Learning Forum
by Erik Jacobson
The Critical Teaching and Learning Forum is a group of educators who discuss and explore education from a left-perspective. Podcast episodes will focus on critical pedagogy and related issues in a variety of contexts. The website for the group is https://criticalteachingandlearningforum.org/
Episodes
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The Necessity of Police Abolition in K-12 Schools
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Renee Johnston, a long-time educator and community activist. Much of her organizing work focuses on abolition, and she is involved in electoral work as a Chairperson in the Green Party of New Jersey. Renee is also co-host of a program on Black…
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Restorative and Transformative Justice In Schools and Other Carceral Spaces
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Jason Williams, Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Jason is committed to connecting his scholarship in critical criminology with work in local communities, particularly in Passaic County. His projects include...
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Cuba as Curriculum: The Praxis of Solidarity
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with the University of Orange's Doug Farrand about his recent trip to Cuba as part of the Solidarity Forever delegation lead by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. This annual action brings food and medical supplies as a response to…
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Adult Education on the Ground In Minnesota
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Kaija Bergen, Patsy Egan and Ann Trochlil. They are all adult educators in Minneapolis and Minnesota working in various capacities. During the conversation, they relate their experiences on the ground, describe adult education's response to ICE's…
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As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with David I. Backer, author of As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools. During our conversation, we explore the connection between public schools and the private bond market, the function of debt in education policy making at…
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Lessons from Martin Sostre's Continuous Struggle
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Garrett Felber, author of A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre. We begin with Garrett giving a brief overview of Sostre's revolutionary work and thinking, and then explore the nature of Sostre's political education inside and...
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Union Training for Green Jobs
In this episode, I speak with Michaela Boren, from the Green Building Training Program of 32 BJ (a union for building services workers). We start by talking about her own experiences withsustainability in her home country of the Philippines and what changed when she moved to the United States.…
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Teaching and Learning About Anti-Fat Bias
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Stephanie Spitz, an educator and activist involved in the struggle to eliminate anti-fat bias in society, including in school settings. Stephanie addresses a number of issues during our discussion, such as the connection between white supremacy and...
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Carceral Logic in Schools and Prisons
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Talib Charriez, senior program coordinator for New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons program (also known as NJ-STEP). He is also teaching faculty in the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers-Newark. The conversation touches…
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Teaching Palestine Now
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with three colleagues who share their experiences with teaching about Palestine in this moment in time. Andy is a middle school social studies teacher, Terry is a high school social studies teacher and Hanan is a student advisor at a college. Although we...
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Comic Books, Gender Rebels and Baseball
In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Ellen Lindner, a comic artist whose work has been seen in places like World War 3 Illustrated, The Strumpet and The Washington Post. She is creator of The Cranklet's Chronicle, self-described as a zine about women, baseball and social change. Ellen is...
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Learning While in Solitary: A Conversation with Keith LaMar
In Episode 19 of the podcast, I spoke with Wali White and four of his high school students who participate in the Native Sons Book Club. The members of the club read books such as A Lesson Before Dying, Parable of the Sower and the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and then discuss them with writer and...
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A Conversation with Students for Justice in Palestine
For this episode of the podcast, my guests are three Palestinian college students who are active in their university’s Students for Justice in Palestine organization. During the conversation, we talk about what they are studying in school, what they have learned about social justice from their...
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The Native Sons Book Club: High School Students in Dialogue With A Person on Death Row
For this episode of the podcast, my guests are Wali White and four of his students – Ethlyn, Julian, Simone and Theo. Wali is co-facilitator of the Native Sons Books Club, along with Keith LaMar. Mr. LaMar is currently a death row prisoner in Ohio. As part of the book club, the students read…
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The University of Orange: Popular Education and Restorative Urbanism
For this episode of the podcast, my guests are Margaux Simmons, Molly Rose Kaufman and Doug Farrand. They are staff and organizers at the University of Orange, a free school of restorative urbanism located in Orange, NJ. The discussion reviews the University of Orange’s activities and its…
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Developing Data Literacy and Fighting for Data Justice
This episode of the podcast features a conversation about working with adult learners around data literacy and data justice. I’m joined by Sherry Ruff and Bonnie Taylor, two long time adult educators who are committed to connecting the work done in their classrooms with the lives and concerns of...
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WE LEARN - History and Future
This episode of the podcast features a conversation about the history and future of WE LEARN – the Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network. WE LEARN is an organization that promotes women’s literacy as a means of fostering empowerment and equity for women. In the conversation I...
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Rethinking Adult Education
This episode of the podcast features a conversation with Paul Jurmo about ways to rethink adult education. Paul has spent his career in the United States and internationally working in a variety of contexts, with a concern for social justice being a consistent element of his practice. He...
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Working With Conservative Students
This episode of the podcast features a conversation with four teachers who work in a range of contexts – elementary, middle school, high school and adult education. Although they work with different student populations, they deal with many of the same issues. One in particular arises again and...
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Writing and Learning While Incarcerated
The guests on this episode of the podcast are Cynthia Peters and Sergio Hyland. Cynthia Peters works at World Education where she is the editor of The Change Agent – a magazine featuring pieces written by adult learners, with a focus on social justice. Cynthia also provides professional…
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An Update on Education in Brazil
Today’s guests on the Podcast are Karina and Laudo Nascimento, professors and education workers from Brazil. Their research focuses on teacher training, particularly with regards to the teaching and learning of English. Karina and Laudo are both interested in the ways that politics, culture and…
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Women's Perspectives: Adult Learner Writers Share Their Work
WE LEARN is an adult education organization that in their own words focuses on the issues, needs, concerns, viewpoints, strengths, and wisdom of women. The latest issue of Women’s Perspectives, their annual collection of writing by adult learners, is out now and some of the writers graciously...
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Adult Literacy and Social Justice
Today’s guest on the Podcast is Ira Yankwitt, a long-time adult educator. Over the years, Ira has been as a teacher, the director of a community based program and an administrator working within the New York City adult education system. He is currently Executive Director of the Literacy…
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Health Literacy and Communicative Justice
Today’s guest on the Podcast is Maricel Santos, an adult educator, researcher and professor with extensive experience in the field of health literacy. During the episode, we discuss moving beyond decontextualized approaches to health literacy and towards education that is grounded in the lived...
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Teaching the Troubles
Today’s guests on the Podcast are Saul Fussiner and David Senderoff, two high school teachers from New Haven, Connecticut. Saul and David have extensive experience with Facing History and Ourselves and the discussion focuses on how they refined their own approach to the material. A pivotal moment...
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Teaching Palestine
In previous episodes of the podcast, I have had conversations with one or two people about their work. This episode is slightly different, as I am joined by four other teachers for a group discussion about teaching Palestine. Two of the teachers work in high schools, with one being an art teacher...
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The Politics of Everyday Literacy Practices
The guests on this podcast are Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear, literacy scholars who have long been at the forefront of New Literacy studies. Their work has been a key part of efforts to re-examine the nature of everyday literacy practices. They are also interested in the opportunities that…
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Using Music to Create Critical Dialogues in the Classroom
Today’s guest on the Podcast is Danné Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University. Danné works with pre-service elementary school teachers and much of her activity focuses on helping these future teachers recognize and be responsive to the...
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Comic Books and Critical Pedagogy
Today’s guest on the Podcast is Kevin Pyle, a comic artist and working teacher. He is the author of a number of books, including Bad for You, Take What You Can Carry and Blindspot. He has also helped create comics that focus on the issues of wage theft, migration and the prison industrial…
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Immigrant Student Activists Fighting for Justice
Today’s guest on the podcast is Giovana Castaneda, a youth leader at Make the Road New Jersey in Elizabeth, NJ and a student at Rutgers – Newark. Giovana has been an activist since she was 16 years old, focusing on immigrants' rights and workers' rights. She is currently involved in an effort to...
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Presence and Socioemotional Health in Correctional Education
Today’s guest on the Podcast is Bill Muth, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Bill spent many years as an educator working in correctional institutions and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hope House, a non-profit organization that helps families separated by prison to...
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Critical Pedagogy in the Suburbs
This episode features a discussion with Andy Beutel, a middle-school social studies teacher working in suburban New Jersey. Andy discusses the need for critical pedagogy in contexts where students' experience of privilege limits their ability to empathize with communities they have little contact...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Critical Teaching and Learning Forum is a group of educators who discuss and explore education from a left-perspective. Podcast episodes will focus on critical pedagogy and related issues in a variety of contexts. The website for the group is https://criticalteachingandlearningforum.org/
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Erik Jacobson
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