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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

12-25-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):





The Socialist Objective: “I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity”
Under a pen-name for a newspaper in 1943, George Orwell wrote about Christmas, veering into a declaration of the Socialist objective, predating by many decades Kurt Vonnegut’s career of making similar and powerful claims about the need for human kindness: The Socialist objective is not a society where everything comes right in the end, because kind old gentlemen give away turkeys. What are we aimi
12-24-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Top Posts of 2013, and Thank YouThis year, 2013, is when I took the plunge and began blogging at my own site—despite trepidation about “who was I..” and “who would bother….” Because of the kindness of my fellow educators, bloggers, and Twitter-friends, I am very pleased