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A sample of papers that have been presented at conferences


"Anti-Fascism: Supporting Targets of Racial, Cultural, and Religious Discrimination & Violence." (2023, May). Presentation for Antioch University's Virtual Doctoral Residency via Zoom.

“Teaching Anti-Fascism in Response to Far-Right Educational Absolutism.” (2022, November). Presentation at Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century Conference, Hofstra University.

"Anti-Fascism: Supporting Targets of Racial, Cultural, and Religious Discrimination & Violence." (2022, October). Presentation for Unity in Diversity series at Merrimack College via Zoom.

“Competing Ideologies: A 3-Part Series.” (2022, October). Presentations for Frank Tobey Jones Senior University, Tacoma, WA: (1) “Historical Foundations of Fascism and Liberal Democracies”; (2) “Contemporary Far-Right Extremism and Conservatism”; (3) “Why Anti-Fascism/Antifa in the 21st Century?”

“Anti-Fascism and the Social Context of Education” (2022, April). Presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

“Incorporating Anti-Fascism into Educational Foundations: A Critical Pedagogical Framework” (2021, November). Presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Studies Association, Portland, OR.

“Movement Toward a ‘Third Reconstruction’ Syllabus: Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender” (2016, April). Keynote presentation for the Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, & Gender special interest group at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

“Department of Justice Reports on Ferguson: A Critical Multicultural Analysis” (2015, October). Presentation at the 25th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Education, New Orleans.

“A Critical Multicultural Critique of Teacher Education National Accreditation Standards” (2015, April). Paper presented at the annual meeting the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

“Placing ‘Ferguson’ & ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the Historical Struggle for Civil and Human Rights” (2015, March). Presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the White Privilege Conference, Louisville, KY.

 "Origins of Diversity Debates" (2012, November). Presentation at the Center for Multicultural Education International Conference, University of Washington, Seattle.

“’Occupy’ Teacher Education: Countering Normative Neoliberal Discourse” (2011, November). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Education, Chicago.

“Critical Multiculturalism and Higher Education: Resistance and Possibilities in Teacher Education” (2010, May). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver.

“Engaging Students in Thorny Multicultural Topics through Autoethnographies” (2010, October).  Panel presentation at Teaching and Learning: An Experience of Meaning and Transformation conference at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, WA.

"Resisting the Effects of Teacher Alienation in an Era of Globalization" (2006, March). Paper presented at the International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference, Washington State University, Pullman.

“Our Bodies, Our Students: Teacher Candidate Autoethnographical Research into Gender and Sexuality Identity Formation” (2006, November). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Conference, Spokane, WA. 

"Connecting Teacher Identity Formation to Culturally Responsive Teaching" (2002,  October).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Education, Arlington, VA.

 “The Centrality of a Multicultural Perspective in a State-wide Pedagogy Assessment of Teacher Candidate Performance” (2003, November).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Education, Seattle.

"The Undermining of Multicultural Education by the 'Global Economy': The Case of NCATE 2000 & the INTASC Standards" (1999, November).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Education, San Diego.

And back in the early 1990s/late 1980s 

A Critical Social Perspective on Serving Today’s Children and Youth: The Experience of a Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (1993, February). Symposium organizer and presenter at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education annual meeting in San Diego.

 Implementing a Multicultural Perspective in Teacher Education in a Region Lacking Cultural Diversity (1992, February). Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education in Orlando.

 Mayflies, Matisse, and Mythology: Holistic Approaches to the Elementary Curriculum as a Foundation for Creating Global Awareness (1989, October). Paper presented at the Education for Global Awareness Conference, sponsored by the American Association of Ideal Education, Fairfield, IA.

 Potentialities and Conflicts within Teacher Empowerment for the Development of Holistic Learning Environments (1989, April). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Humanistic Education, Denver.

 Teacher Education and the False Promise of Teaching as a Profession: Economic Constraints on the Social Organization of Work (1988, March). Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Southeastern Regional Conference on the Social Context of Education, Nashville.

  • Fascism Is Happening and Bursting Democracy’s DamJuly 23, 2024
    Blog posted on Columbia University’s Teachers College Press site: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/fascism-happening-what-teachers/
  • Fascists Shed their Republican KKK Sheep’s Clothes – as directed by Stephen MillerJune 6, 2024
                Republicans are unhappy that a jury unanimously found their fascist leader guilty of 34 counts of fraud.  Stephen Miller, who served as a senior policy and speechwriter during Trump’s...
  • “Refuse Fascism” InterviewMay 30, 2023
    I was recently interviewed by RefuseFascism.org. Note: First 1 minute contains short clips from the full interview. Next, host Coco Das provides anti-fascist news and commentaries. At about 8 minutes...
  • A New Governing Regime: Far-Right ExtremismJuly 10, 2022
             It’s taking us far too long to recognize the ugly hand of fascism. Why, you may ask?  History demonstrates rising fascist politics from far-right movements become increasingly entrenched, operating...
  • Failed Coups & Far-Right Electoral PoliticsJune 20, 2022
    Adolph Hitler’s “behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization…he was no longer to be feared.  It is believed he will retire to private life and to...
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