Season 1: Episode 10 - Dr. Kaleb Rashad: Publicness, citizenship, and young people
"Ep. 263 - Dr. Kaleb Rashad on Race and Education in America" (Getting Smart Podcast, June 5, 2020) (http://bit.ly/2NcfIKC)
"One of the maybe underappreciated, undervalued aspirations that sometimes get like whitewashed over is about developing a sense of publicness — an ability for folks to be able to be in community with each other. How do we live together? Sometimes we talk about it as citizenship. But we really don't practice democracy. Kids are generally on the receiving end of totalitarian rule — whether it's as a parent, or within their schools. In this land of democracy, it is very very rarely practiced. And so we talk about citizenship, but really young people have very few opportunity to engage in dialogical listening, meaning-making together, making decisions together..." (0:13:29-0:14:33).
References:
Getting Smart Podcast (https://www.gettingsmart.com/categories/series/podcasts)
Dr. Kaleb Rashad (https://twitter.com/kalebrashad)
100 Days of Conversations (100daysofconversations.org)
youth x youth (youthxyouth.com)
NOW! (https://www.now.world)
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari (http://bit.ly/3bZgbu3)
Michael Lipset of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)
Connect:
Twitter (https://twitter.com/mjcraw)
Website (https://www.mjcraw.com)
Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)