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The excitement was palpable in our Toronto newsroom yesterday upon word that Henry Giroux, the renowned scholar now at McMaster University, was keen to contribute a piece to The Conversation Canada.
Giroux is an American-Canadian cultural critic and one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy (don’t reach for your dictionary, as some of us non-academics sheepishly did this week; it’s the method and practice of teaching). In 2002, Giroux was named one of the Top 50 education thinkers of the modern age by Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Giroux is such a rock star that actual rock stars are fans – he was interviewed last year by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes in Rolling Stone magazine about corruption. Unsurprisingly, Giroux’s piece for The Conversation Canada did not disappoint. It’s a passionate, eloquent rallying cry to educators and youth alike to stand up and fight for democracy in an era of rising nationalist and populist sentiment.
Also for your reading pleasure today: the University of Toronto’s Clayton Childress offers up his picks for five great summer books. And U of T’s Kaila C. Bruer tells us about a new police lineup design could help us assess the reliability of child eyewitness accounts – and hopefully prevent wrongful convictions.
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A young woman protests at a “Not My President” demonstration against Donald Trump in New York in December 2016.
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Henry Giroux, McMaster University
According to famed anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, the central question of our times is whether we’re witnessing the worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some sort of populist…
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Education
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Kaila C. Bruer, University of Toronto
Child eyewitnesses make more mistakes than adults when identifying criminals. A new police lineup design could help us assess their reliability and prevent wrongful convictions.
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Arts
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Clayton Childress, University of Toronto
When picking books to read this summer, reach out for the unknown. Here are five expert recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, for which deserved attention is just starting to shine.
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Culture + Society
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Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church requires nearly absolute obedience. This makes it difficult to speak up against superiors. And by the same token, superiors too can protect offending priests.
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Science + Technology
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Leigh Fletcher, University of Leicester; Emma Bunce, University of Leicester
Juno has flown closer to the solar system's most famous storm than any other spacecraft to take the most detailed images to date. They may help scientists reveal some of the spot's best-kept secrets.
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