Transformative Talk: Critical Conversations for Teachers

Dr. Zaid Haddad
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Welcome to Transformative Talk! Each episode is hosted by different graduate students in Dr. Haddad’s courses at UTSA. Join us as we explore how educators can use critical social theories to transform themselves and their classrooms. Educators get real and share real-life experiences, near misses, and big-little wins.

  1. 06/27/2023

    Same Stuff, Different Century

    In this episode we join Sarah, Sonny, Brooke and Kelsey to talk about Modern Schools, and we will be referencing Urban and Wagoner’s 2013 book, “American Education: a History,” specifically the chapters on the Progressive Era as it relates to our education system today. Questions about the role of American Manifest Destiny has in the evolution of secondary schools in the US as well as a frank conversation about assimilation are included in this episode.

    40 min

  2. 06/27/2023

    Shampoo, Rinse, and Repeat

    Next from the Secondary School Curriculum Course, we join This is Kimberly, Abi and Sylvia to talk about the high points concerning the evolution of high school and the role that the Cardinal Principles of 1918 have played. We will also ponder if we have to go back to what was (with a few tweeks) to move forward. Welcome to Shampoo, Rinse, Repeat.

    50 min
  3. Secondary for Who?

    06/27/2023

    Secondary for Who?

    Welcome to the Summer 2023 Session! During this first five week session I taught a course called Secondary School Curriculum that focuses on the historical foundations of secondary education and curriculum as well as explores the current state and national standards to better understand where curriculum is going, has been, and is now In this episode, join Haley, Kalena, and Emily as they explore the foundational history or secondary schools in the US.

    31 min

  4. 05/29/2023

    The Transformation of Capital to Community Cultural Wealth

    Join Kalena and the Emilys your host for this episode of Transformative Talk. In this episode, we are going to talk about Pierre Bourdieu and his cultural capital theory, Moll’s contracting approach of Funds of Knowledge and Yosso’s theory of Community Cultural Wealth.

    44 min

  5. 05/29/2023

    Demagoguery and Domination on the Daily (ala: Educational, Critical Social Theory)

    Join Sarah, Heather and Nathan, your hosts for this episode of Transformative Talk. In this episode, they talk about Demagoguery and Domination on the Daily within an educational critical social theory focus,

    38 min
  6. Who's here for the hard reset in education?

    05/28/2023

    Who's here for the hard reset in education?

    Join Lauren and Andrea, two early childhood educators as they explore the idea of the "hard reset" in education post pandemic and post everything else in the world today.

    30 min

  7. 05/24/2023

    Imagining New Futures: Afrofuturism, Renaissance, and Curriculum

    Join Mishaila and Ellie as they talk about art curriculum and the imagined future found in Beyonce's Renaissance and AfroFuturism.

    1h 5m

  8. 05/24/2023

    Language, Curriculum, & Instruction: What Languages Are Valued And Which Languages Are Taught?

    Join Nicole and Rachel for this episode of Transformative Talk where we delve into language and how it's taught and reinforced in the curriculum.

    57 min
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Welcome to Transformative Talk! Each episode is hosted by different graduate students in Dr. Haddad’s courses at UTSA. Join us as we explore how educators can use critical social theories to transform themselves and their classrooms. Educators get real and share real-life experiences, near misses, and big-little wins.

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