Posts by Deniz Ortactepe

Pollution, recycling and greenwashing

If you have been following the election debates and the news, you have probably seen this viral video of Van...

The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights & the Politics of Pollution

This is a talk given by Professor Robert Bullard at UC Santa Barbara in 2006. You will see how relevant...

COVID-19’s Harvest of Danger

This is a good follow up read to our discussion last week on migrant education. There’s a link to a...

United States Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace is a “national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition...

Working for Racial Justice as a White Teacher

Here’s yet another interesting piece about teaching high-school history for racial justice.

Disability and inspiration

I could only watch half of this, but I will go back and finish it. The presenter talks about the...

Transgender in Bangladesh: First school opens for trans students

This is super exciting! Bangladesh’s first religious school for transgender people has opened in Dhaka.

How to Teach American History in a Divided Country

I enjoyed reading this history teacher’s perspectives on teaching history for the past 26 years. You will see how the...

Helping Students Make Sense of the Election

This article itself is OK but there are some resources here that might be more helpful.

Talks by Giroux on Neoliberalism and Education

Henry Giroux is one of the theorists of critical pedagogy and a cultural critic. I like both of his talks...

Webinar: Anti-blackness in classrooms

Here’s the recording of the webinar I attended last week that I have been telling you about. If you happen...

Teaching white privilege as uncontested fact is illegal, minister says

This article makes me really really angry. Kemi Badenoch is the women and equalities minister in the UK. These words...

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