Category: Adam Fletcher

• Robbing Perspectives

  Robbing Perspectives One of the biggest problems with standardizing education is that by creating standards – concrete, non-variable, measurable learning outcomes – educators actively ignore the nature of childhood. Young people are inherently moving, increasing and decentralizing their conceptions of the world. Standing them still and making them look in one direction should be illegal, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  August 6, 2007

  Memoirs, school improvement, student voice, Youth Work

• My Background in Translation

  

  There was a period of time, about ten years ago, when any discussion of “youth rights” automatically got me fired up. In 1997 I was working as an “adult living skills” instructor in a program for foster and homeless youth in Lincoln, Nebraska. That year I re-read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed for the […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  August 5, 2007

  Adam Fletcher, CommonAction, Freechild, Memoirs, SoundOut, Theory

• My Review of “Walking on Water”

  Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution was written by Derrick Jensen. This is my review for The Freechild Project.   One of the most important components of both education and activism is contextualization. As Paulo Freire argued, learning must be rooted in the context in which education takes place. For a sixth-grader in the US, […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  July 18, 2007

  Adam Fletcher, education, Reviews, social change