#Ethics – Page 9 – Digital Journal

Yosso (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth.

August 9, 2017October 8, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“… his [Bourdieu] theory of cultural capital has been used to assert that some communities are culturally wealthy while others are culturally poor. … In other words, cultural capital is not just inherited or possessed by the middle class, but rather it refers to an accumulation of specific forms of knowledge, skills and abilities that are _valued_ by privileged groups in society.” (p 76)

Bennett (2008). The Strategies.

August 6, 2017January 13, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“For the privacy advocate, the politics of information is more difficult. It relies upon argumentation about potential consequences. It often involves extrapolations from the experiences of similar surveillance systems in other times and places. Increasingly it involves considerable technical expertise, and sophisticated understandings of the operation of complex public and private organizations.” (p 98)

Justice & Stanley (2016). Teaching in the Time of Trump.

December 7, 2016 by Orest Kinasevych

“Public schools exist, in part, for the political purpose of instilling the principal values of a democratic republic, training students in the skills and knowledge requisite to healthy democratic life. In a time when a major political candidate threatens the fundamental values of the nation, educators are called to explain the nature of the present threat, that is, to explain one of the oldest problems in Western philosophy, the problem of demagoguery.” (p 38)

The origin of “dead-lines”

January 3, 2015October 8, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“The horrors of that prison were so great that one man went over the line, and refused to leave it until he was shot dead. So great was the horror and misery of that place that I myself had thoughts of going over that dead-line to be shot in preference to living there.” (p 73)

Freire (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed.

February 5, 2014October 8, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human.” (p 44)