Tag archives for politics

Linguistic Chauvinism

Posted by  on Monday, August 27th 2012     
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I just finished watching my daily hour of PBS news and I’m irate. Sometimes American insularity and small mindedness is cute and amusing (as De Tocqueville imagined) but sometimes it isn’t. Listening to a Republican senator ramble on about how “English First” is what true Americans insist on, just “got my goat” – a policy [...]

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category: In The News, on language
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My own Egyptian moment (Part 2)

Posted by  on Tuesday, November 22nd 2011     

Previously, in the spring, I wrote about events in Egypt and my own feelings as a teacher. Given recent events, I’m revisiting these thoughts and thinking about my caution at the time, my fear that power will triumph over “education”. By education, I mean what we SHOULD be teaching in schools. Here, in Egypt or [...]

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category: Prof. Development, Uncategorized
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