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Claudio Carvalhaes

Blog, Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination

Assigned Readings as Larger Communities – Knowing, Doing, and Desire

November 14, 2022

When I was doing my PhD, I remember being anxious about the readings to be done. Union professors used to assign hundreds of pages to read every week. I am a slow reader and I would always come to class…

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Blog, Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination

Listening to the Birds – A Pedagogy of Affection

August 29, 2022

Yesterday I was doing my walk and I found this little newborn bird on a sidewalk. She was alive and gasping for food. Her eyes were still closed and there were only few very thin feathers on her back. I…

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Blog, Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination

The Classroom as Webs – Teaching Like a Spider

May 11, 2022

This semester I am teaching a class called Theology and the Arts. In this class we are engaging the earth with the five senses of the body. During our last class we engaged the sense of vision and read about…

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Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination

1,600 Files and 5 Plastic Bags

January 17, 2022

At the end of November I experienced a disastrous event: I lost about 1,600 files from my computer. For reasons I’d rather not discuss, all I know is that years of heavily curated material and so much hard work are…

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Teaching, Religion, Politics

How Can We Keep the Love of Teaching? Waking up and Positioning Ourselves

June 7, 2021

As we finish this semester, it might be a good exercise to look back and see what worked, what didn’t quite work, and what will never work. Student evaluations often convey needs or anger or unfocused frustrations; very little that…

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

Teaching Drenched in Grief–Mourning as a Political Gesture of Resistance

April 23, 2021

I am consumed by grief. At home in Brazil, the situation is horrendous and bodies are piling up,  as it was here in the US last year.  We will soon surpass 3 million deaths around the world due to COVID-19….

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

A Pedagogy of Astonishment—Rubem Alves, Iemanjá, Obaluaê/Omulu, Pearls and Oysters’ Places: Part I

December 10, 2020

Rubem Alves was a Brazilian theologian who became a psychoanalyst, educator, and writer of children’s stories. In one of his short stories called Happy Oysters Don’t Create Pearls, he tells the story of an oyster that was different from all…

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

Pedagogies of Cruelty

May 20, 2020

The term “pedagogies of cruelty” was created by the Argentine-Brazilian, feminist, anthropologist Rita Laura Segato.[1] Her development of the term has to do with the ways we must learn nowadays to get used to the cruelty of our times. This…

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