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In this episode I am joined by Professor Richard Light, the founder of Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching. Professor Light works at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His early work was in the sociology of sport with a focus on culture and embodied learning but over the past decade he has drawn on this work to inform a distinctive program of research focused on a socio-cultural approach to pedagogy and on the body's role in learning. He draws on learning theory and some social theory to inform this work. Professor Light has a broad background in teaching and coaching across a wide range of cultures, having coached and taught in Australia and Japan and having held academic positions in Japan, France, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. This background encourages him to establish a dialectic between practice and theory that is a feature of his research and his teaching. He enjoys a strong international profile, is widely published and has published in Japanese, Portuguese and French as well as English. You can contact Richard on Twitter at @richardlight11 or via email: richard.light@canterbury.ac.uk (work) or richardlight11@gmail.com (personal).

The good citizen defends his castle.   Punks, thieves, thugs, and rapists don’t stand a chance against a 44 Magnum in the hands of the good guy who stands his ground.   That is the myth.  The reality is that America’s love affair with guns and lethal self-defense has not made America safer, just more violent and more afraid.    Harvard Professor Caroline Light explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her book, Stand Your Ground:  A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense, Professor Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces.  Unlike the mythology of Dirty Harry and redemptive violence, America’s stand your ground culture and laws that accompany it do not protect the vulnerable against Mr. Stranger Danger.  Just the opposite.   Professor Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.

Richard Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks about effective and organized teaching, focused on connecting abstract academic ideas to more practical, quotidian thoughts. His award-winning book, Making the Most of College (Harvard, 2001), which is based on 10 years of student interviews, serves as a springboard for the discussion. Professor Light is introduced by Associate Provost Dennis Slavin. The event takes place on November 19, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250.

Richard Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks about effective and organized teaching, focused on connecting abstract academic ideas to more practical, quotidian thoughts. His award-winning book, Making the Most of College (Harvard, 2001), which is based on 10 years of student interviews, serves as a springboard for the discussion. Professor Light is introduced by Associate Provost Dennis Slavin. The event takes place on November 19, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250.

Richard Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks about effective and organized teaching, focused on connecting abstract academic ideas to more practical, quotidian thoughts. His award-winning book, Making the Most of College (Harvard, 2001), which is based on 10 years of student interviews, serves as a springboard for the discussion. Professor Light is introduced by Associate Provost Dennis Slavin. The event takes place on November 19, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250.

Richard Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks about effective and organized teaching, focused on connecting abstract academic ideas to more practical, quotidian thoughts. His award-winning book, Making the Most of College (Harvard, 2001), which is based on 10 years of student interviews, serves as a springboard for the discussion. Professor Light is introduced by Associate Provost Dennis Slavin. The event takes place on November 19, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250.