This semester, I am teaching two novels and a few short stories written by brilliant, critical “Orientals,” and Africans following Edward Said’s advice to make use of his work on orientalism so we might then produce new studies of our own that would “illuminate the historical experience of Arabs and others,” including Muslims, in “a […]
Posts Tagged ‘pedagogy’
Resistance literature and ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ in colonized Palestine
November 24th, 2021 Awake Goy
The pedagogy of apartheid
October 16th, 2017 Awake Goy
Two months ago, Israel’s education ministry introduced a compulsory four-part question in civics matriculation exams. Students are asked to give their opinion on a “controversial public issue”, including for example “allowing different population groups to live in separate neighborhoods”. In the circulation to teachers, it was stated that since teachers “sometimes encounter inflammatory or racist […]