Wonder
When I began to write this short essay on wonder and childhood, I think I imagined a homily to the childlike sense of wonder and an indictment of the forces of…
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March 25, 2018
Here I try to mobilize powerful, transformative, wonderful ideas relevant to children, childhood, learning, teaching and culture. These ideas orient us to fields of action, forces, and the material conditions and causes of the formation of human subjects. Sometimes ideas that are not “wonderful” will be addressed because they have a significant impact on the lives of children and the people who educate and take care of them. This is the infinite archive of wonderful ideas imagined by Borges, reimagined by every child with a “library card” to the universe
Natality
The wonderful idea of the month is "natality." Specifically, I am referring to Hannah Arendt's development of the term from the notion of human birth where, "we are all the…
February 11, 2018
Walking with Children Resources
Hike it Baby is an organization dedicated to "getting families together and out into nature with birth to school age kids." …
January 21, 2018
Interpellation
Interpellation This is the first entry in an ongoing series of important, "wonderful," significant ideas in childhood, culture, teaching and learning. “Interpellation” is a fundamental idea in the solicitude of…
December 10, 2017