Author Archives: David J. Smith

Teaching Social Justice By Experiencing Social Injustice

By: David J. Smith, October 6, 2014 A long line of educators including John Dewey and Maria Montessori have advanced the importance of experience as  being essential to learning.   I have found that making students uncomfortable and slightly disoriented can lead students to reconsider strongly held notions and opens the door for the possibility of new awareness.ContinueContinue reading “Teaching Social Justice By Experiencing Social Injustice”

St. Louis Community College Responds to the Ferguson Crisis

By: David J. Smith, September 28, 2014 In the last few days, more protests have taken place in Ferguson, Missouri.  Last week the chief of the Ferguson Police Department issued an apology to the family of Michael Brown.  The Brown family has recently asked the Department of Justice to take over the case against OfficerContinueContinue reading “St. Louis Community College Responds to the Ferguson Crisis”