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Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as“Radical Hope”.
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“Dinner table experience” describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled people’s childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations unfolding around them, but without them. Drawing on 11 prairie-based deaf and/or disabled artists’ dinner table experiences, four researcher-artivist authors map a critical bricolage of prairie-based deaf and disabled art from the viewpoint of a metaphorical dinner table set up beneath the wide-skyed “flyover province” of Saskatchewan. Drawing on a non-linear, associative-thinking-based timespan that begins with Tracy Latimer’s murder and includes a contemporary telethon, this article charts the settler colonial logics of normalcy and struggles over keeping up with urban counterparts that make prairie-based deaf and disability arts unique. In upholding an affirmative, becoming-to-know prairie-based crip art and cultural ethos using place-based orientations, the authors point to the political possibilities of artmaking and (re)worlding in the space and place of the overlooked.
In this essay, we discuss how teachers and students can use children's literature and literature‐based activities to intentionally foster hope. The previous years have proved to be challenging on many fronts. Teachers of all levels are focusing on ways to support academic development in an oft‐shifting context. Drawing on research using bibliotherapy and other literature‐based interventions, we propose a literature‐rooted framework for teachers and students to create environments that foster hope.
While on the one hand democracy is inconceivable without elections, political elections alone are no guarantee for democratic governance. Put differently, one cannot be a democrat without supporting elections, but one can very well conduct elections without being a democrat. (Ronald Meinardus, 2004)
In many parts of the worl.d, democratically elected governments ignore constitutional limits and deprive the people of basic human rights and freedoms.-Ronald Meinardus (2004) TEMPORALITY, DANGER, AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY We live in dangerous times. This statement is not intended to be trite or to rehearse fatalism and evoke dystopic discourses. Instead, it acts in this instance as a starting point for intention. The intention is to grapple with the various relationships, tensions, and discordances between democracy and decency while unpacking the various interpretations of both democracy and decency that such a grappling may reveal. To "grapple" will necessarily imply a nonlinear, nonpositivist narrative engagement with the ideas Democracy and Decency, pages 21-37
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