What does it mean to be a citizen in a contemporary city? What duties do we have as citizens to participate in civil society? Is civil society critical? What makes any city progressive? Can there be progressive governance without citizen involvement? What does it mean to be progressive? What makes for a safe, diverse, and vibrant community?
These are driving questions that I hope to explore over the next little while and if along the way this blog gathers a community willing to explore these issues. In the meantime I will leave these questions out there to see what happens.
As a teacher, questions of citizenship and preparing students to be successful in a particular society are uppermost in my mind. I find myself preoccupied with the task of preparing students to be part of a context in which their fellow citizens might not be active citizens working for the good of others or apathetic to the concerns of those around them.
Being an agent of change is something that we all aspire to but as a teacher aware that education is more than just the imparting of facts and ideas out of context this is a reality. I am an agent of change and what I need is a community interested in joining me to make sure I have a way of catching errors in perception and judgement so that the effect that I have contributes to the progression of human endeavor in a progressive direction.
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