<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> --</span></i><img src="cid:ii_i6wlfg4e1_14beb948d92dbc9d" width="100" height="161" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Educating for Insurgency<i> </i></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">is brilliantly conceived and beautifully written—easily the most perceptive and useful book on education for freedom I’ve read in years.</span></i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></i></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">--Bill Ayers, author most recently of</span><i style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident.</i></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hello Burke scholars! I first studied KB as a graduate student in Comparative Literature in the 80s and have been reading him ever since. I even had lunch with him once, when he asked me if I could hold his canes for him so he could go to the lavatory! For the last 25 years I've been a math teacher in Baltimore Public Schools, learning from the MacArthur Award winner Bob Moses, an unparalleled leader of SNCC in the 1960s, and now committed to re-constructing education in America. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">My new book, <i>Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty,</i>applies Burke's dramatism to the daily political questions faced by young people--especially descendants of slaves--in our public schools. Burke and Bob Moses share a method of inquiry that gets at the heart of the nightmare our students and teachers are living through, and they propose, in their own ways, a method of struggle that is dramatic without violence. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The book treats both some historical and theoretical questions, and also goes concretely into the daily practices of schools, ending with an application of the <i>Rhetoric's</i> discussion of "courtship" and "pastoral" to Baltimore's classrooms.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I would be thrilled to involve you serious Burke scholars in the conversation and organizing work that is coming out of the book's publication and reception. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">If you are interested in purchasing a copy, please go to <a href="http://www.jaygillen.net/" target="_blank">Educating for Insurgency</a> . Proceeds from that site go to the young people of the Baltimore Algebra Project, an entirely student-run non-profit promoting peer-to-peer math education and student self-advocacy.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Here's a review published by the scholar/activist John Duda on Truthout: <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28255-flipping-the-script-pedagogy-theater-and-radical-organizing-in-schools-of-poverty" target="_blank">Flipping the Script</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thank you! Jay</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jay Gillen <a href="mailto:gillen.jay@gmail.com">gillen.jay@gmail.com</a><br>443-248-9032 (cell)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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