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Papers Discussed March 28-30, 2003
Separate but Equal? Segregated Schools and the Fragmentation of Civic NarrativeKurt Cobain vs. Master P: A Critical Taxonomy of Multicultural Education
Comments:I am extraordinarily grateful to the Program in Ethics and Public Life for inviting me to present my work as a Young Scholar in March 2003. It is a rare and wonderful opportunity to have twenty or thirty scholars from a range of disciplines engage deeply and carefully with one’s ideas — and from breakfast through dinner, no less! I received comprehensive feedback on early drafts of two chapters of the new book I’m writing; in the months since the Young Scholar weekend, I have used participants’ comments not only to revise those two chapters in particular, but also to focus the structure and rhetorical style of the rest of the book. In this respect, I found the interdisciplinary nature of the workshops especially helpful; I’m trying to reach a wide audience in this book, and it was extremely useful to discover what approaches did and did not resonate among the group as a whole. Fielding questions and criticisms of one’s work over the course of two three-hour seminars plus meals could have been a daunting experience. But EPL director Michele Moody-Adams, Senior Scholars Robert Fullinwider and Lawrence Blum, who were the official commentators, and the other participants set a sympathetically and supportively critical tone that was both encouraging and invigorating. I would not have changed the weekend in any way: it is a perfect model for intense intellectual engagement with and support of young scholars. All in all, the Young Scholar weekend stands as an intellectual highlight of my time in academia, and I expect it will remain so for some time to come. Many thanks to Cornell University, the Program in Ethics and Public Life, Michele Moody-Adams, and Margaret Nichols for organizing and hosting a terrific and immensely productive weekend!
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Boston Public School Teacher Author of the book The Demands of Liberal Education