April, 2015

Arrêtons de parler du FN

Les politiques français sont obsédés par le FN. Pourtant, ils feraient mieux de recentrer la discussion sur leur propre contribution politique positive, plutôt que de s’efforcer diaboliser – inefficacement – le FN. La contreculture d’extrême droite pend au nez des Français et il est nécessaire de changer de stratégie. Le doute…

Canadian Politics for Dummies: the 2015 Electoral Rundown

It’s that time of year again! The US presidential campaigning period has officially kicked off, with several presidential hopefuls having announced their candidacies earlier this month. As reporters prepare for the impending media circus, political organizers across the country begin to kick their fundraising efforts into overdrive. Even Canadian news…

What Are We Learning Anyway?

What are we learning anyway? I’m not talking about your honors thesis, your major, your minor, your unpaid stints in the research labs, your clubs and extra-curriculars, students government positions or whatever else you pad your CV with. But maybe that’s part of the problem: your mind - without your…

The Value of Education

Education is valuable. It is valuable, but discriminatory by nature within a capitalist framework. Capitalism is oppressive by nature; inequality is a necessity, at least to some degree. The consequences of an education system being run by capitalism are daunting. Barriers (tuition costs, and so forth) exist to restrain certain…

The Limitations of Data-Driven Instruction

In June 2014, I completed a graduate program in literacy at one of the top-tiered universities for education in America. I did not feel any joy of accomplishment—relief, yes; liberation, absolutely—but not pride. At the university, many of the classes, especially the practicum courses, emphasized the importance of the data….

Historically Illiterate

I was in the British education system until year nine. That’s the year before you start your GCSE courses, the first round of exams that really matter for your future. Over the course of my education I had taken at least one history course per year. I also took three…

Defending the Importance of Music Education

When people think of education currently, they view it with an ideal pertaining to pragmatic purpose. In our current established capitalistic society, the purpose of education is ultimately to prepare one for a career that will help them obtain profit. While some argue the economic practicality of this, we can…

Le printemps austère du mouvement étudiant

Le mouvement populaire de ce printemps s’affirme comme une grève sociale en réaction aux mesures d’austérité et à l’économie du pétrole qui se distingue de la lutte estudiantine de 2012. On peut donc se demander pourquoi les associations étudiantes semblent présentement être les actrices prépondérantes de la mobilisation. Or, outre…