DJEC is a community education journal focused on topics of education in the greater Denver area. By engaging in community discourse, and connecting this content to scholarship and policy, DJEC hopes to contribute to local education thinking by offering a balanced and well-informed perspective.
Community Vision for Education of ChildrenScholar PerspectiveBy | Amy Ferrell, PhD Education is the process of becoming ourselves. On this journey of becoming, individuals come into contact with the inner sacredness that affirms their supreme worth, doing so in community through the driving force of love (hooks, 2012; Vanier, 2008). Read more…
Community Vision for Education of ChildrenEditorial ContributionBy | Andrew Lefkowits The promise of public education – to create the engaged, informed citizens of tomorrow, to level the playing field and give an opportunity to anyone willing to take it – has been broken, and the stories told in this journal Read more…
Community Vision for Education of ChildrenStudent PerspectiveBy | Alana Marie Barros The current education system is set up in a way where students are in high-stress situations all through school. Many students feel as though the school board and their teachers care more about numbers than the students they are Read more…
Community Vision for Education of ChildrenAntwan Jefferson, PhD This is the Denver Journal of Education and Community (DJEC). Welcome to the first issue. DJEC is a community-sourced education publication that reflects the viewpoints of a wide range of perspectives throughout the Denver-metro area. We hope that the Journal becomes a Read more…
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