by Drick Boyd | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured
Note: After a several month hiatus, I am renewing this series on important books that have impacted me. A Slow Impact Probably more than any other book in this series, no book has redirected the course of my life like Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and no author has...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Inside Out Program Last week ( April 1-7) I participated in a teacher training conducted by the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. Started in 1997 by Temple University professor Lori Pompa, Inside Out “facilitates dialogue and education across profound social...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 22, 2018 | Featured
This past week (October 18-19) I had the privilege of attending the Freire50 conference at the University of South Carolina commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s groundbreaking book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. There were...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 29, 2018 | Featured
This past summer I celebrated my 65th birthday. When it comes to age there are certain numbers in our culture that carry extra significance;18,21, 40 and 65 are such numbers. On that particular day, I was in Oark, Arkansas where my wife and I had rented an AirBnB...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured
During this year (2018) many have noted two events that occurred 50 years ago (in 1968) that continue to have an impact on the lives of people around the world; I am one of those so-impacted. Even though I was alive at the time, it was not until many years later that...
