Sunday, February 21, 2010

The article “Floating Foundations” emphasizes the point that school can be used to reunite people in any circumstance. In the case of New Orleans, the teachers used education and school to bring community together as well as reflect and make suggestions for post-Katrina. Judith Kemerait Livingston thought, “Katrina so radically de-familiarized the United States that it exposed issues like economic inequality, failing public schools, and crumbling infrastructure in a way that simultaneously educated us and demanded action from us.” This is what struck me as most important within the article. Education can be seen as a fix for anything because education demands new solutions and thinking. By directly linking education and course material to the world around us, the students were more actively engaged, like in the article we read “Living Savage Inequalities.” It is important to note the class material is always changing though due to changing times.

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