This essay deals with constraints over the imaginary in dominant discourse and data on transforming those constraints, and how structural violence fits in. This dialog file shows how different people come to express themselves in different ways, and how we, the teachers, often fail to see the validity of this different mode of expression

Adversarialism AND Mutuality

• Mutuality and Replacement Discourse by Tina Juen. How do we manage to integrate our behavior across classrooms that reflect mutuality and those that reflect structural violence? Link added September 15, 2000.

Disrespecting the Other

• Crime as Disrespect and "Knowingness" by Donna Maria Woods. In what sense is harming another through disrespect a crime? Link added September 15, 2000

Aboriginal Peoples

• Aboriginal Justice by Gary McCullough. How can we get past a country's tourism, which sometimes hides the aboriginal or poor people from sight? Link added September 15, 2000.

Living with Mortality

• Sylvia Snowden's Tribute to Her Son, Malik by Lisette Garcia. How does sadness help us appreciate beauty? Does Sylvia Snowden's tribute to Malik do that? Link added September 16, 2000.

Day of the Dead - Posada.

• Conceptually linking our experiences with Day of the Dead

Respecting Beliefs in a Climate of Knowingness

• The Slippery Slope of Challenge When Loving Would Do by Tina Juen. How does the professor's challenge to his students at the end of every semester show disrespect for them as learners? Do you think such disrespect is harmful to them as learners? Link added September 24, 2000.

• The Teacher Who Practiced Loving by Tina Juen. Link added September 24, 2000.

  • How does respect for the Other help us practice love instead of structural violence?
  • How did the teacher who practiced loving manage to respect each student's feelings? Was that a part of the practice of love?