Calls for Articles

Radical Teacher is a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal grounded in radical left politics. We publish articles that focus on education written by educational workers at all levels, in traditional and nontraditional institutions. Since 1975, we have provided a forum for progressive and accessible voices, promoting peace, social justice, and equality. We encourage potential contributors to explore our politics, our submission policies, and our past issues at www.radicalteacher.org.

Radical Teaching In Bad Times

When we began planning a cluster of articles on this topic, we had in mind a variety of crises that seemed possible or imminent, including the arrival of peak oil; accelerating climate change; an accumulation of failed wars and challenges to the U.S. imperial project; economic collapse.

Well, the last of these is with us now, and seems sure to last a while, bringing a decline in well-being here and around the world, and severely straining our political system. So we can use the present tense to frame some questions we hope to address in a crisis issue of Radical Teacher:

  • how are hard economic times affecting students' educational choices?
  • the educational system as a whole?
  • how can progressives in K-12 and higher education promote radical understandings of the depression?
  • can we teach better and more directly about capitalism as a system?
  • better dismantle the ideologies of patriotism, masculinity, markets, and individual choice, that are so stupefying now?
  • does the crisis call for new courses, curricula, or pedagogies?
  • new kinds of activism in and around education, given the crisis of funding that faces us?

These are just a few possibilities. We'd like to hear from old and new contributors, especially those who have already been addressing such questions. Please send proposals or drafts to richardohmann@earthlink.net, by July 1, 2009.

And if you’d rather discuss teaching about the other crises—war, oil, climate, and so on—please feel free.

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Teaching Notes

Is there a book, film, essay, poem, or story that you've found particularly useful in the classroom and want to share with other Radical Teacher readers? We are especially interested in Teaching Notes on new materials not widely known, but we would also like to hear about newly rediscovered older works, as well as new ways of teaching familiar ones.

Or has something challenging, encouraging, or frustrating happened in class? If you think our readers can learn from your experience—whether you handled things well, handled them badly, or are still trying to decide—we’d like to hear about it.

Contributions should run about 500 words. If you’d like to see some sample Teaching Notes, check out “Recent Issues” on our web site.

Please send a hard copy of your Note to Bob Rosen, Department of English, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470—and also an e-mail, with the header "Teaching Note," to: bobrosen@radicalteacher.org

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News for Educational Workers

Is there a news item, call for papers, upcoming conference, resource, teaching tool or other information related to progressive education that you would like to share with other Radical Teacher readers? Conference announcements and calls for papers should be at least six months ahead of date. Items, which will be used as found appropriate by Radical Teacher, cannot be returned. Send hard copy to Leonard Vogt, Department of English, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101—or email items to: nfew@radicalteacher.org.

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