Against Islamophobia: Teaching Tolerance in Today’s Classroom
I suppose the word to best describe what I was feeling at that moment was shock. Yes, shock which...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | November 3, 2014
I suppose the word to best describe what I was feeling at that moment was shock. Yes, shock which...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | May 30, 2013
It was the spring of 1999. Heading out the door of the inner city elementary school where both my...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | September 12, 2012
Mrs. Stevens was strict. Mrs. Stevens scowled. Mrs. Stevens got after her students. Mrs. Stevens had fiery red hair. Mrs. Stevens was not some people’s favourite grade 2 teacher but…she was mine because Mrs. Stevens...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | May 31, 2012
by Melanie Stonebanks By looking back and by remembering the past, I have attempted to bind my past experiences as a professional educator in several contexts and roles to create patterns of my professional development in the...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | May 8, 2012
By Melanie Stonebanks The unexamined life isn’t worth living. – Socrates, 450 BC A few weeks ago, I wrote about my early teaching experiences in inner-city Montreal. This entry builds on that previous post and will...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | April 3, 2012
by Melanie Stonebanks Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry (we) pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. – Paulo Freire In...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | February 14, 2012
by Melanie Stonebanks You don’t have to have all the answers. You only need to know the questions to ask. As has been discussed in the previous two postings on this topic, critical literacy is a way to use texts to help...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | December 14, 2011
by Melanie Stonebanks My husband and I have spent years discussing and debating our perspectives and understanding of every aspect of the field of education. We met when we were in high school, and went our separate ways for a...
Read MoreMelanie Stonebanks | November 8, 2011
by Melanie Stonebanks This blog post is the first in a series of three looking into the world of Critical Literacy; an instructional approach that encourages readers to actively analyze what they are reading in order to question...
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