Category: Reflection

• Get Uncomfortable

  

  Are you preaching to the choir or sticking out your neck? If we’re really going to ensure that more young people have more opportunities to change the world and their own lives, we have to reach further. We have to touch the hearts and minds of children, youth and the adults who are with them […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  March 22, 2015

  activism, Reflection

  activism, knowledge, personal development, ref, social change

• Individualism or Interdependence?

  In a facebook conversation today, I began to write about the inherent ideological split among the ranks of folks who support my work, and across the spectrum of people who call for youth engagement, youth voice, meaningful student involvement, student voice, student rights and youth rights in general. I believe that split looks like this: […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  December 12, 2014

  Adam Fletcher, Paulo Freire, Reflection, social change, Theory

  culture, education, Paulo Freire, social change, youth discrimination

• A Brazilian Interview

  In the aftermath of my recent visit to Brazil I have been fielding a few online interviews. Following are my thoughts in reply to a reporter’s questions today. What do you think?   1 – What do you think about the idea of having a more open national curriculum for that age (15-17) so that […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  December 3, 2014

  Adam Fletcher, education, Interview, Reflection, relationships, social change

  Adam Fletcher, adultism, culture, education, social change