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	<description>“The religion of tomorrow will be more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.” ~ Tommy Douglas</description>
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		<title>Are We Favouring the Simplistic over the Complex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Cultural Workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should daycare workers and preschool teachers be screened on the basis of being convergent, compliant and conventional? Or should we seek people who are capable and skilled at divergent, critical and creative thinking?
I think that daycare workers and preschool teachers should meet a number of criteria. First, we should be caring. Children require caring and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Already Know How to Love and to Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberation Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am participating in a conference on the human rights of the child. The conference feels more like two different events, as there are two very different sets of speakers throughout the overall conference. One set of speakers talks about statistics and law, often citing lines in an international treaty that they want the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Caring Communities and Relationships</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1237</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberation Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think that the difference between participation and being intentional about relationships in caring communities is huge and important to think about.
This is because when we ask &#8220;how can someone participate in our program?&#8221; we start thinking of the program, not the person. But when we ask &#8220;how can I relate with a person in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Knowledge, Favoured Knowledge, Useful Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Potential]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of kinds of knowledge, but in school it&#8217;s useful to think of three kinds of knowledge.  These are:

Personal Knowledge
Favoured Knowledge
Useful Knowledge

Personal Knowledge
Personal knowledge is what we know from all our experiences as human beings.  It is what have learned from our family, our friends, our teachers, our leaders, the media and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irresponsible Use of Power in Child Care Practice</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1201</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Potential]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a child care worker I believe that my work is to provide care to families.  This means that our role as care providers is, simply put, to care for children at the bequest of families. This is best done in thoughtful, honest, caring and respectful ways. We provide care for children because families either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B.C. Wood for Haitian Rebuilding</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1193</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Equity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Policy Note, &#8220;A Modest Proposal&#8220;:
At some point before long, Haiti is going to be rebuilt. It occurs to me that we in BC have available wood to help in the effort. Most things are built of concrete there because there simply isn’t any wood. Rebuilding out of concrete will be massively expensive and massively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Canadian</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1188</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Partisan Politics - Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I moved to Canada in April 2007 I decided that I would wait three years before taking a position on partisan politics.  I&#8217;ve stuck to that, and have mostly stood on the sidelines and watched politics unfold, rather than join in commentary or protest.  
One reason why I held off on taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willie Baptist on Leadership at Justice Theater Conference</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1170</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Movement]]></category>

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Willie is a leader in the movement to end poverty led by the poor.  He is one of my mentors and he works to expand human potential by developing leaders from the ranks of the poor, by uniting people around human rights values and through education and scholarship. He spoke at the opening of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of Many Joys of Child Care Work</title>
		<link>http://tomkertes.com/1167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am so happy to be part of the Langara ECE program this year! I am part of a wonderful cohort of students who are really interested in learning more about each other, sharing ideas and making a difference as preschool teachers, daycare providers and other child care workers.  Here&#8217;s a photo of many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Theater Conference &#8211; Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Kertes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I work with the United Workers (an organization fighting to secure human rights for everyone and founded by homeless day labourers in Baltimore) and helped with some of the planning for last weekend&#8217;s Justice Theater Conference.  So even though I could not make it to the event, I felt like I was there in spirit.  [...]]]></description>
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