Fifth Estate Seeks Contributions on Radical Education
Fifth Estate seeks articles, anecdotes, essays, and experiences on
radical education.
Whether you are active on the front lines of urban
public education, a rural college of social rest, a small alternative
school, or even a home school setting, we are asking for creative learning
in adverse times. From our Three R's (Reading, Resisting & Rebelling) to
theirs (Repression, Revenge, and Ritalin), what goes on in the classrooms
— and in the factories and fantasies of learning — may be more crucial to
our collective survival than ever before.
We hope to explore how anarchist theory collides with — and overcomes —
the No Child Left Unpunished Act, to ask how one educates for tangible
peace in time of global war, and to see the potential for schools to
trigger real revolutionary change. We encourage both theoretical and
practical writing, as well as historical analysis, including forays into
the contributions of Francisco Ferrer and the pioneering Spanish Free
Schools during the early 1900s, or the radical advocacy of Paulo Freire,
Ivan Illich and Jonathan Kozol, from the 1960s onward.
Sample Questions: Should we just set fire to all the schools or fire all
the schoolers? How can communities demand radical pedagogy? In the fall
of 2004, will campus activism across the country exalt, exclude. . . or
explode?
July 15 Deadline for first drafts
Articles and essays 1500-4000 words
Reports 800 words
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