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Terrorism, Nationalism, and Dilemmas in Teacher Education
Steve Bialostok

With examples from the language used to describe the events of September 11, 2001, and the wave of patriotism that followed, the author attempts to show his students—preservice teachers—that comprehension is never neutral and neither is any source of knowledge. Making meaning, he says, is an act of “writing the world,” and teaching is inherently political.


Talking Points, Volume 16, Number 1, October 2004

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