fear Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/fear/ Pushing The Edge for Critical Thinking in Education Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:30:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pushingtheedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-PTE-512x512-32x32.png fear Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/fear/ 32 32 Can We Come to Your Wedding? https://pushingtheedge.org/can-we-come-to-your-wedding/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:16:18 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=10591 In the battle for Marriage Equality, I reflect on moments in my classroom as a gay teacher. Most noticeably, a ‘can we come to your wedding?’ plea from my students. Can We Come to Your Wedding – We’ll bring the flowers It’s early morning, just before class. One of my adult students comes bursting in, ‘Greg, did you hear the news?’ “Everyone can get married by the end of the year,” she says, referring to the forthcoming Marriage Equality postal survey in Australia. With my students knowing that I’m gay and in a relationship – I say, “maybe Simon and

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]]> Facing our Fears with Justin Schleider https://pushingtheedge.org/facing-our-fears/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:00:34 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=8758 How a Physical Education teacher confronted his fear about The Other. Plus, coming to realize our privilege and then using it for good as a teacher.

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]]> Going Back, Finding Me, Coming Home https://pushingtheedge.org/coming-home/ https://pushingtheedge.org/coming-home/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:53:22 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=8433 I'd resisted the idea for so long - seen it as an admittance of failure. How wrong I was. Here's how I found me and came home by returning to teaching.

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