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Peter Seixas: A response to E. Wayne Ross' "Courage of hopelessness"

This video is Peter Seixas' response to my January 15, 2016 talk, which was given as part of the 2016 University of British Columbia, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy seminar series. My rejoinder to Seixas begins at the 27:30 mark. Below is the abstract for Seixas' talk: "Dr. Wayne Ross challenged commonplace notions of schools, teacher education, the subject of social studies, democracy and freedom. In this talk, I review the arguments and confront them as a colleague—in the department, in social studies education, and in the project of educating teachers for British Columbia schools. As the basis of my critique, I offer a theoretical framework through the concept of “historical agency,” which calls attention to the abilities of people to act individually and collectively to shape the course of history, as well as the limitations on those abilities. It offers a way to steer a course between the two closely related traps of hopelessness and utopianism. I sketch its utility specifically in relation to 1) understanding our own social and political situation, 2) thinking about the role of schools and teachers in democratic societies, 3) developing useful curriculum and pedagogy in Canada today, 4) educating student teachers in the Faculty of Education, and 5) conducting educational research that matters."