[Xmca-l] Re: Vera John-Steiner has passed away

Robert Lake boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
Tue Dec 19 07:24:19 PST 2017


Dear All,
Thanks to Peter Smagorinsky, here is a link to some pictures from our AERA
2013 session in San Francisco, dedicated to Vera's
life, teaching and scholarship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy1s-Fs7ByE

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply
becomes part of us.” -Helen Keller

*Robert Lake*

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Jay Lemke <lemke.jay@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just now reading of Vera's passing.
>
> So sad she has left us, but so happy in remembering all my wonderful
> conversations with her in so many places around the world.
>
> I learned a lot from her about the less visible and more implicit aspects
> of creativity and collaboration and how to think with and about them. I
> also learned about compassion, and about the challenges faced by even the
> most brilliant women in a male-arrogant academia. People who never met her
> can be grateful for her life and her work. For those who were lucky enough
> to know her, we have been lucky indeed.
>
> JAY.
>
>
>
> Jay Lemke
> Professor Emeritus
> City University of New York
> www.jaylemke.com
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear XMCA Family,
> >
> > Our beloved Vera John-Steiner died last night very shortly after she
> > experienced a stroke.
> > She had posted to this site on 11/25/17.  We will send more information
> and
> > an obituary as
> > it becomes available.  Attached is the last "letter" from
> > *Constructing a Community of Thought:Letters on the Scholarship,
> Teaching,
> > and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner *(2013).
> > In this piece, we sought to synthesize all the wonderful contributions
> > from so many of her friends, collaborators and students from the book
> > mentioned above.
> >
> > Warmest condolences to her family and to all her knew and loved her.
> > *Robert Lake*
> >
>



-- 
Robert Lake  Ed.D.
Associate Professor
Social Foundations of Education
Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8144, Statesboro, GA  30460
Co-editor of *Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies,* vol.39,
2017
Special issue: Maxine Greene and the Pedagogy of Social Imagination: An
Intellectual Genealogy.

 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gred20/39/1
Webpage: https://georgiasouthern.academia.edu/RobertLake*Democracy must be
born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.* John
Dewey-*Democracy
and Education*,1916, p. 139


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