Also, I was honored to contribute to a recent EdWeek Blog post on «Using SEL to
Challenge Systems of Oppression.»
Ashley comes to Sound Discipline with a background in Gender Studies and International Development and a deep desire to contribute to work that
challenges the systems of oppression and exclusion that permeate our institutions.
Not exact matches
In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance
of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery,
oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks;
challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory
of «dependency» on inhuman economic
systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation
of peace and justice; and the reality
of «institutionalized violence.»
Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is
challenged by the poverty and
oppression which is the lot
of most
of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform
of the welfare
system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end
of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.
Using SEL to
Challenge «
Systems of Oppression» is the headline
of one
of my latest Education Week Teacher columns.