Listen to Season 2, Episode 2: vindiCATE. Craig Wood is a teacher, writer, researcher, unionist. He is employed full-time as a research officier for the Queensland Teachers' Union in Australia. He joins Jennifer Martin to discuss cross-cultural neoliberal education policy. You can reach Craig by email at cwood@qtu.asn.au.
Craig discusses more on neoliberalism the global education reform movement in his book chapter, “The Last Days of Education,” published in Creative Selves / Creative Cultures and edited by Stacy Holman-Jones and Marc Pruyn.
Diversi, M. & Moreira, C. (2018). Betweener autoethnographies: A path towards social justice. New York NY: Routledge.
Diversi, M. & Moreira, C. (2009). Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and praxis. New York NY: Routledge
Diangelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
More on Craig's critical reflection on his own teaching practice can be found on The Crystallizing Teacher where he shared five stories of teacher experience as a part of his continuing doctoral research.
For Further Reading:
Delgado, R. & Stefanic, J. (2005). The Derrick Bell Reader. NYU Press: New York.
Diversi, M., & Moreira, C. (2016). Betweener talk: Decolonizing knowledge production, pedagogy, and praxis. New York, NY: Routledge.
Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of freedom: Ethics, democracy, and civic courage. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Freire, P., (1997). Pedagogy of the heart. Bloomsbury: London.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2009). The Dreamkeepers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Orelus, P. W. (2013). Whitecentricism and linguoracism exposed: Towards the de-centering of whiteness and decolonization of Schools. Peter Lang: New York.