Josh Lederman

 

      

"In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short."
-Zen proverb

 

    

Josh is a doctoral student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches English composition at Emmanuel College in Boston, where he coordinates the first year writing program.  He also manages The Klezwoods and steals their musicians whenever possible for his own purposes.  Just watch him.

 

 

    
Josh's teaching philosophy is heavily influenced by the works of Paolo Freire; both see teaching and learning as a dynamic process, not as a binary system.  Josh attempts to take his students outside of the notion that knowledge comes in digestible pieces from an authority figure, and that their job is to take those pieces in and store them. 

Rather, Josh believes that knowledge is socially created and that it must be considered critically before being blindly accepted.  He realizes the potential contradiction that this very notion itself is something that he is right now saying as if it were true, not something that he is socially creating, and he's fine with that.

   

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