Not redundant, believe it or not!

Through adherence to our critically reflective ideological principles and acting on those ideologies through critically reflective methodology, which always includes ideology, our actions as educators/educands become pedagogy.

In other words…

If our methodology does not adhere to a set of critically reflective and dynamic overarching principles, then we are simply regurgitating what we were taught. We are repeating the mistakes made by those who came before us. When we regurgitate, we fail to take the actions of those who came before us into account in our actions. It is impossible to transcend our past without understanding it and integrating it into our present decisions and actions.

If we, as women and men seek to play a dynamic role in the formation of our society, we must constantly consult the seven pillars: science, market, history, culture, language, politics, and time/truth. Why? As humans we have historically avoided making critical reflection a way of life because for most, it remains a nebulous construct with fuzzy edges. While I admit structuring our thoughts via the 7 Pillars will inevitably fail some (if not all) circumstances in one way or another, they are needed to help create a system by which we can better understand our world.

AIF action.

Last week, I was involved in my first Albuquerque Interfaith Action, holding politicians accountable to the agenda of our citizens. They were to answer "yes or no" questions, ironically enough, "yes or no" and given each one to two minutes to explain why. One of them said he supported our agenda and then during his explanation pretty much said he was said yes, but he didn't support his answer. I held him accountable by pointing that out. Made this gentlemen look the fool. It was rather fun, I must admit!