From Fried Chicken to Fascination with Home

The students did not know what to write in response to the prompt for “home.” Should I describe my house in New York or Colombia? …Bangladesh? …Nepal? When my co-teacher and I designed this prompt to teach New York City students at P.S. 69 in Queens the...

Folklife Education

Standing on the threshold of the schoolhouse door surrounded by the flow of traffic moving between the community and the classroom, I notice a pile of what appear to be discards cast to the side outside the doorway. Much of the pile is community knowledge  and...

Ago/Ame

  As the field of education offers more inclusive learning environments for students from different backgrounds—for example, cultural, socioeconomic, and neurological, to name a few—providing  alternative education models challenges the “one-size-fits-all”...

A Pedagogy of Making Do

by Danielle Henn A woman with aching feet sees a five-gallon bucket, turns it upside down, and sits on it. A man who needs quick cash goes into the woods, digs up a dogwood tree, and sells it on the side of the road.A researcher wanders into an unfamiliar field of...