[Indigsol] Fwd: call for submissions: "Education for a Change" issue

[Sylvia Smith]

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From: Dave Mitchell (Briarpatch) <editor at briarpatchmagazine.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Subject: call for submissions: "Education for a Change" issue
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 *Education for a change: The education system and the work of building a
better world*

Who could bear to hold privilege that meant the suffering and death of
others if they had not been trained from early childhood to see these others
as not real? Who would tolerate, for even an hour, the inhuman conditions
imposed by the privileged, if they had not been trained from early childhood
to feel themselves not fully entitled to life?
-Aurora Levins Morales, *Medicine Stories*

If you plan for a year, plant rice.
If you plan for ten years, plant trees.
If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.
-Chinese proverb

The education system, broadly conceived, represents both our best hope of
emancipatory change and the primary mechanism for replicating the status
quo. In this time of economic upheaval, the dual potential of the education
system – to either prolong injustice or empower groups of people to confront
it – becomes increasingly apparent and more hotly contested. In our
September/October issue, "Education for a Change," *Briarpatch* will
surveying this contested space, exploring the challenges as well as the
opportunities the current moment presents to allow us to rethink the ways we
share knowledge (and consequently power) with one another, with our
children, and with the children of others.

If you’ve got something to contribute to this discussion, then we want to
hear from you. We are looking for articles, essays, investigative reportage,
news briefs, project profiles, interviews with luminary thinkers, reviews,
poetry, humour, artwork & photography that fits broadly under the umbrella
of "education." We seek to cast a critical eye on the state of education
today (including everything from early-childhood intervention programs to
trade schools to the ivory tower), but we also want to celebrate the
grassroots initiatives that demonstrate education's revolutionary potential.

Possible topics could include (but are no means limited to):

   - the state and future of Canada's institutions of higher learning;
   - emerging trends in home schooling and unschooling;
   - the commercialization of the classroom;
   - retraining for a green economy;
   - literacy and political engagement;
   - greening/browning the curriculum: environmental/cross-cultural
   education;
   - student debt: the next bubble to burst?;
   - the state of student activism in Canada (or elsewhere);
   - advances in popular education and radical pedagogy;
   - education and literacy in the global south.

We also welcome pitches for short profiles (300-800 words) of programs,
activities and initiatives that demonstrate the emancipatory potential of
education. (Please note that we do not accept profiles of organizations
written by staff of those organizations. Such organizations are welcome –
indeed, encouraged – to take out an
ad<http://www.briarpatchmagazine.com/Ads/BriarpatchMediaKit2009.pdf>in
this issue.)

Queries are due by *May 20.* If your query is accepted; first drafts are due
by *June 15*. Your query should outline what ground your contribution will
cover, give an estimated word count, and indicate your relevant experience
or background in writing about the issue. If you haven't written for *
Briarpatch* before, please provide a brief writing sample.

Please review our *submission
guidelines<http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/10/26/submission-guidelines/>
* before submitting. Send your queries/submissions to editor AT
briarpatchmagazine D0T com.

We reserve the right to edit your work (with your active involvement), and
cannot guarantee publication.

*Other upcoming Briarpatch themes:*

*November/December 2009:* Work, the labour movement & the global economic
crisis
Query deadline: June 26, 2009

*January/February 2010:* Resistance 2010: The politics of protest in Canada
Query deadline: Approx. September 1, 2009 (TBA)

*March/April 2010:* Gender & sexuality
Query deadline: Approx November 1, 2009 (TBA)


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Dave Oswald Mitchell
Editor, Briarpatch Magazine
2138 McIntyre St.
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Sylvia Smith
Teacher,
Elizabeth Wyn Wood Alternate Site
613.225.8826 x 235


Coordinator, "Project of Heart"
projectofheart.ca
info at projectofheart.ca
2 Craftsman Private, Ottawa ON K1Y 4W9
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