Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces through Intercultural Pedagogy
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 114
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Copyright: 2022
Pages: 114
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Humans have never been more interconnected to one another or more disconnected from one another. The Covid-19 pandemic… has proven that the health of every person on the planet is interconnected... so too are our many intersecting social, legal, and political systems built on another human-made concept—race… Democracy itself is under a lot of stress as its ability to tolerate…diversity without oppressing minorities comes into legitimate question…Whether we get revolution or reform, civil war or truth, healing, and reconciliation remains to be seen…Mahatma Ghandi was right, “We must be the change we want to see in the world.”
In Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy, Michael Taylor offers us a glimpse of what that could look like. Speaking from and to his…academic training, deep experience educating educators, and lived experience of taking action for social change…we are offered guideposts and wisdom to navigate the terrain ahead…I have witnessed and participated in his academic and teaching universe where he marries theory and practice. His book pulls together these things—emotion, intellect, and action—and it makes for powerful medicine. Taylor is well aware that we cannot appropriate other cultures but that there is a value to each culture on the planet. We can and must be exactly who we are. Being the change does not require the abandonment of our heritage. But at the same time, as Taylor shows, we cannot afford to parochial in our thinking, hunkered down in echo chambers, exacerbating tensions or ignoring oppression. Now is the time to build bridges, to explore the many intersecting layers to our individual and collective identities, to expand and be intentional about our affinity spaces. There is a lot at stake, but our capacity and need for change has never been greater.
-Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, and author
-Excerpts from the book’s preface
Foreword: Anton Treuer
Personal Preface: Nexus of Life’s Intercultural Journeys
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Visionary Pragmatism and Protest
CHAPTER 2 The Lions, the Switch, and the War: Deciphering Pieces of Northern Ireland’s Peace Mystery
CHAPTER 3 Eager Return to Ireland: The Voyage of the Dusk to Dawn Treaders (with apologies to C.S. Lewis)
CHAPTER 4 Saint John Henry Newman and The Idea of the University: Why Ireland?
CHAPTER 5 The Red and Green “Problem Peoples”: Shared Cross-Cultural Affinity of Native Americans and Irish
CHAPTER 6 Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces through Intercultural Pedagogy
CONCLUSION Overall Implications of a Vision for Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy
Bibliography
*Received both PhD and Master's Degree from the Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. Degrees focused in curriculum and instruction leadership and educational leadership.
*Dissertation: An Autoethnographic Journey to the Self(self-study). Has since participated in several publications and more presentations; and a book to be published in 2022: Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy. Kendall – Hunt publisher. His next book scheduled for publication (same publisher) in early 2023 is: Black Elk’s Life Speaks: “That Much…More.”
*Holds active Wisconsin certification in administration (K-12 principal) and teaching (broad field social studies 7-12). Have taught full time and sub taught extensively in Catholic and public K-12 settings. Also a Catholic School Elementary/middle school principal. Prior to being hired at U Mary (presently associate professor of education – was very active as an adjunct professor at Silver Lake College, Marian University, National Louis University and Lakeland College. Have been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since spring of 2006.
*Undergraduate degree from Lawrence University in Government - Appleton, WI.
*Born in Pontiac, MI; raised in Frankfort MI.
*Married to Kate (1st Grade teacher at Saint Ann Catholic School – Bismarck) and have four children: Michael (graduate of the University of Saint Thomas, MN), August (graduate of U of Mary, Bismarck, ND undergraduate in business, and present graduate with MBA), Douglas (Senior– U of Mary online) and Frances (Senior– U of Mary); all three slated to graduate from the University of Mary in April of 2022. Family pets- beagle puppies – Mildred & Bernard
*Aside from his passion to learn and teach: he enjoys down time with family, avid reader of fiction and nonfiction, loves walking and hiking (area Buttes/Mountains), enjoys gardening with his wife Kate, tinkering in garage, and avid hunter and fisherman...
Mike Taylor is a native of Pontiac, Michigan; and grew up during his teenage years in Frankfort, Michigan. Before moving to North Dakota in August of 2015 he lived in Wisconsin for approximately 30 years. His educational background is he received both PhD and Master's Degree from the Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. Degrees focused in curriculum and instruction leadership and educational leadership. The title of his Dissertation: An Autoethnographic Journey to the Self(self-study). Has since participated in several publications and more presentations. Mike holds active Wisconsin certification in administration (K-12 principal) and teaching (broad field social studies 7-12). He has taught full time and sub taught extensively in Catholic and public K-12 settings. He was also a Catholic School Elementary/middle school principal. Prior to being hired at U Mary (presently associate professor of education) – he was very active as an adjunct professor at Silver Lake College, Marian University, National Louis University and Lakeland College. Mike has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since spring of 2006. Mike's undergraduate degree from Lawrence University in Government - Appleton, WI.
Mike is married to Kate (1st Grade teacher at Saint Ann Catholic School – Bismarck) and Mike and Kate have four children: Michael (graduate of the University of Saint Thomas, MN), August (Recent graduate of U of Mary, Bismarck, ND and present U Mary graduate student MBA), Douglas (senior and psychology major – U of Mary online) and Frances (Senior and communications major – U of Mary). ALL are scheduled to graduate this coming spring 2022 (fingers crossed and hands folded in prayer!). Family pets- beagle puppies – Mildred & Bernard
*Aside from his passion to learn and teach: Mike enjoys down time with family, avid reader of fiction and non fiction, loves walking and hiking (area Buttes/Mountains), enjoys gardening with his wife Kate, tinkering in garage, and avid hunter and fisherman...
Humans have never been more interconnected to one another or more disconnected from one another. The Covid-19 pandemic… has proven that the health of every person on the planet is interconnected... so too are our many intersecting social, legal, and political systems built on another human-made concept—race… Democracy itself is under a lot of stress as its ability to tolerate…diversity without oppressing minorities comes into legitimate question…Whether we get revolution or reform, civil war or truth, healing, and reconciliation remains to be seen…Mahatma Ghandi was right, “We must be the change we want to see in the world.”
In Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy, Michael Taylor offers us a glimpse of what that could look like. Speaking from and to his…academic training, deep experience educating educators, and lived experience of taking action for social change…we are offered guideposts and wisdom to navigate the terrain ahead…I have witnessed and participated in his academic and teaching universe where he marries theory and practice. His book pulls together these things—emotion, intellect, and action—and it makes for powerful medicine. Taylor is well aware that we cannot appropriate other cultures but that there is a value to each culture on the planet. We can and must be exactly who we are. Being the change does not require the abandonment of our heritage. But at the same time, as Taylor shows, we cannot afford to parochial in our thinking, hunkered down in echo chambers, exacerbating tensions or ignoring oppression. Now is the time to build bridges, to explore the many intersecting layers to our individual and collective identities, to expand and be intentional about our affinity spaces. There is a lot at stake, but our capacity and need for change has never been greater.
-Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, and author
-Excerpts from the book’s preface
Foreword: Anton Treuer
Personal Preface: Nexus of Life’s Intercultural Journeys
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Visionary Pragmatism and Protest
CHAPTER 2 The Lions, the Switch, and the War: Deciphering Pieces of Northern Ireland’s Peace Mystery
CHAPTER 3 Eager Return to Ireland: The Voyage of the Dusk to Dawn Treaders (with apologies to C.S. Lewis)
CHAPTER 4 Saint John Henry Newman and The Idea of the University: Why Ireland?
CHAPTER 5 The Red and Green “Problem Peoples”: Shared Cross-Cultural Affinity of Native Americans and Irish
CHAPTER 6 Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces through Intercultural Pedagogy
CONCLUSION Overall Implications of a Vision for Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy
Bibliography
*Received both PhD and Master's Degree from the Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. Degrees focused in curriculum and instruction leadership and educational leadership.
*Dissertation: An Autoethnographic Journey to the Self(self-study). Has since participated in several publications and more presentations; and a book to be published in 2022: Perpetuating Joy in Affinity Spaces Through Intercultural Pedagogy. Kendall – Hunt publisher. His next book scheduled for publication (same publisher) in early 2023 is: Black Elk’s Life Speaks: “That Much…More.”
*Holds active Wisconsin certification in administration (K-12 principal) and teaching (broad field social studies 7-12). Have taught full time and sub taught extensively in Catholic and public K-12 settings. Also a Catholic School Elementary/middle school principal. Prior to being hired at U Mary (presently associate professor of education – was very active as an adjunct professor at Silver Lake College, Marian University, National Louis University and Lakeland College. Have been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since spring of 2006.
*Undergraduate degree from Lawrence University in Government - Appleton, WI.
*Born in Pontiac, MI; raised in Frankfort MI.
*Married to Kate (1st Grade teacher at Saint Ann Catholic School – Bismarck) and have four children: Michael (graduate of the University of Saint Thomas, MN), August (graduate of U of Mary, Bismarck, ND undergraduate in business, and present graduate with MBA), Douglas (Senior– U of Mary online) and Frances (Senior– U of Mary); all three slated to graduate from the University of Mary in April of 2022. Family pets- beagle puppies – Mildred & Bernard
*Aside from his passion to learn and teach: he enjoys down time with family, avid reader of fiction and nonfiction, loves walking and hiking (area Buttes/Mountains), enjoys gardening with his wife Kate, tinkering in garage, and avid hunter and fisherman...
Mike Taylor is a native of Pontiac, Michigan; and grew up during his teenage years in Frankfort, Michigan. Before moving to North Dakota in August of 2015 he lived in Wisconsin for approximately 30 years. His educational background is he received both PhD and Master's Degree from the Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. Degrees focused in curriculum and instruction leadership and educational leadership. The title of his Dissertation: An Autoethnographic Journey to the Self(self-study). Has since participated in several publications and more presentations. Mike holds active Wisconsin certification in administration (K-12 principal) and teaching (broad field social studies 7-12). He has taught full time and sub taught extensively in Catholic and public K-12 settings. He was also a Catholic School Elementary/middle school principal. Prior to being hired at U Mary (presently associate professor of education) – he was very active as an adjunct professor at Silver Lake College, Marian University, National Louis University and Lakeland College. Mike has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since spring of 2006. Mike's undergraduate degree from Lawrence University in Government - Appleton, WI.
Mike is married to Kate (1st Grade teacher at Saint Ann Catholic School – Bismarck) and Mike and Kate have four children: Michael (graduate of the University of Saint Thomas, MN), August (Recent graduate of U of Mary, Bismarck, ND and present U Mary graduate student MBA), Douglas (senior and psychology major – U of Mary online) and Frances (Senior and communications major – U of Mary). ALL are scheduled to graduate this coming spring 2022 (fingers crossed and hands folded in prayer!). Family pets- beagle puppies – Mildred & Bernard
*Aside from his passion to learn and teach: Mike enjoys down time with family, avid reader of fiction and non fiction, loves walking and hiking (area Buttes/Mountains), enjoys gardening with his wife Kate, tinkering in garage, and avid hunter and fisherman...