In Episode 60 Dr.
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr.
Joel Westheimer a Professor of
Democracy and Education at the
University of Ottawa,
musician, and the education
columnist for
CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show. He is the author of
What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good. We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign and day in United States, the Presidential Inauguration, political and economic mobilization of young men via
social media, censorship, freedom of speech,
backlash against universities, academic freedom,
facilitating debates and pluriverse perspectives in the classroom, his new
book, examples and differences between and among
responsible, participatory, and/or social justice-orientated forms of citizenship, role of schools and teachers teaching
for Democracy,
authoritarianism in the gilded age of tech plutocracy, and so much more.
