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JoAnn McAllister
Dear friends of the Human Science Institute we have learned a lot about communicating with you through this new (to us) format of the blog. We are going to take some time – a break from the news, yes – but also some time to learn more about how to support you and others who…
Read MoreThere are three concepts in the framework I have been using to pose questions about the events, policies, and positions reported in the news. In summing up the several essays prompted by the Mueller Report, I described the concepts as questions about knowledge, that is, what we believe; the role of people’s ordinary experience in…
Read MoreThe questions that I have been asking the last several weeks can be important tools when integrated into a framework to facilitate effective social change. Whether you are an engaged scholar, a practitioner, a nonprofit leader, staff or volunteer at a community organization, or you are an advocate or movement activist responding to a specific…
Read MoreThe questions asked about the Mueller Report over the last seven weeks represent a framework to learn, analyze, and act on social and political issues from a grounded perspective. So often our passion to respond to some immediate injustice takes us off on a journey for which we do not have a map. One of…
Read MoreThere are now multiple conversations at cross-purposes on the fall out from the Special Counsel’s report and it has been an excellent example of how to analyze and reflect on what is presented as the news. It is time to move on, however, and wrap up the process of asking questions that I have walked…
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