Education for the Activists of the Present and Future
A genuine solidarity with Palestinians will require us not to compromise their agency.
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Education
How to Stir Things Up and Still Sleep at Night: Lessons from a Thai Activist
A Thai activist offers advice and reflection on his years of standing up to injustice. As a student activist from Thailand, I have spent the past decade involved in movements for educational reform, democracy, and anti-gentrification. I am also Thailand’s first conscientious objector to military service, and I am currently facing up to three years
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A Bangladesh Tragedy Foretold
The military training aircraft tragedy that killed several children in Dhaka was not only avoidable but also indicative of pervasive mismanagement, incompetence, and callousness.
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The United States: From Brain Gain to Brain Drain
The assault on higher education and free speech and the abrupt withdrawal of essential funding for scientific research will have lasting consequences for all Americans and for the US’s role as a global leader in education and innovation.
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No Curfew on Knowledge: A Library That Never Sleeps
A library that never sleeps is not merely a logistical facility but an ethical, intellectual, and democratic necessity.
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Sex is a Continuum
President Trump’s Executive Order 14168 overlooks the complexity of human development and discounts those people who do not fit into their exclusive categories.
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Curating the Humanities
Leveraging methodologies from public and engaged humanities is pivotal for students learning to avoid falling into the trap of discounting others’ lived experiences and non-academic knowledge as inconsequential to their own. At the beginning of each semester, students receive syllabi, which serve as roadmaps for navigating their courses and managing the demands of academic
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Reimagining Democratic Education: Insights from Paulo Freire
In a country as diverse and stratified as Bangladesh, Paulo Freire’s vision of “Educational Democracy” could serve as a beacon, guiding us toward a future where education is not just about acquiring knowledge but about transforming societies for the better.
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Education: Sometimes We Should Feel Uncomfortable
People A social studies teacher is fired for stating that white privilege is an established fact in his “Contemporary Issues” class and for showing a poetry performance by a Black woman. An English high school teacher is fired after parents complained about her reading and writing assignments on an award-winning young adult novel in her
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Education: In Conversation With Shetaz Huq
In this Shuddhashar Free-Thought podcast, we talk to Shehtaz Huq, a middle school English teacher in the Bronx, about her efforts to highlight the voices of girls of colour in education.
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