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Can asking “why?” lead to resistance and social transformation?
For some time now, I have been interested in thinking through the potential ethical and political value of asking “why.” Cultivating selves/communities who persistently ask “why” (along with “at whose...
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Oh bother! The Today Show Takes on Gender-Neutral Parenting
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy For maybe the first time ever STA, RJP, FWA and I happened to be watching the Today Show yesterday morning and saw their...
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on self-control and the trouble with discipline, pt 1
As someone who often struggled with self-control as a child and who is strongly resistant to being disciplined (even now; my twitter handle is undisciplined, after all), I bristled when I first saw the...
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on self-control and the trouble with discipline, pt 2: troubling images
Yesterday, I listed off 4 reasons (among many others) for why I refuse/reject/resist using or claiming the terms, “self-control” or “discipline”: one: They conjure up damaging images and reinforce...
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An undisciplined experiment with digital storytelling
Almost 10 years ago, STA and I did two digital videos about the Puotinen family farm. While the films that we made in 2002/2003 weren’t technically sophisticated (we used iMovie, a built-in microphone...
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Thanks Mom! Banksy Beside JennyHolzerMom
see more epicfails Thanks to Susannah for this image and her question about the link between troublemaking and care. I really like the idea of envisioning encouraging kids to make trouble (well, maybe...
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7 Traits Kids Need to Succeed?
I’m really interested in thinking through and writing about character traits and virtue. It was a big part of my dissertation and has continued to guide much of my research and writing. Partly...
View ArticleOn Bad Babies, Moral Education and Care-as-Generosity
Note: I originally started this blog post in mid April. I decided to finish it up today. Originally, this post was intended to be far more ambitious…maybe that’s why I never finished it. In completing...
View ArticleAnother Summer Ends
Summer is over and I feel a bit lost and overwhelmed. I tried a new experiment this summer. I didn’t work on any projects. I didn’t write. I didn’t create digital stories. I didn’t research. Instead I...
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Linking care with troublemaking, part 2: What does it mean to care?
This entry is part of my series on care and its connections with troublemaking. As I mentioned previously (here and here), I am interested in thinking through what care is and how it does/doesn’t...
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