Love Pedagogy: Disrupting the Violence Against Young Bodies

To "disrupt" is to interrupt an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem; it is to radically alter the structure of a problem. Ed Factory Teacher's Institute seminars and public symposia this year will attempt to address the young body both psychologically and physically and the direct and often overlapping social, economic, and political responses the US has had to particular young bodies (e.g., gay bodies, bodies of color, male and female bodies).

Join the Teacher's Institute @Minneapolis for its annual public symposia series, where artists, scientists, educators, and activists will engage the public in discussions about why it's necessary and how we might disrupt the violence against young bodies. RSVP here.

What is a “love pedagogy”? Read about it here.

Teaching to Disrupt

Saturday, November 22, 2014
12:00 PM 1:00 PM 12:00 13:00

University of Minnesota, STSS Building Minneapolis, MN 55455 (map)

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William Ayers, Educator, Author, Activist

At the opening of the Ed Factory Teacher's Institute @Minneapolis Visiting Scholar Public Symposia series, educator, author, and activist Bill Ayers will address the Institute's 2014-2015 theme, Love Pedagogy: Disrupting the Violence Against Young Bodies.

Bill Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), and he is the founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. Ayers' articles have appeared in several journals and newspapers including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, and the New York Times. Ayers is also the author of more than 20 books, most recently Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident (Beacon Press, 2013) and with Rick Ayers, Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2011).

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