Researchers frame their pedagogy as resistance to a neoliberal attack on public education.

Evidence

The decline in public education challenges critical pedagogues inside and outside the academy to continuously pursue pedagogical approaches vital to building educated resistance and reflective praxis in concert with student-teachers, community activists, and social movements to the neoliberal attack on our public institutions. As university-based scholars, therefore, our intellectual project is the development of a cadre of critical foundation phase2 pedagogues committed to education for liberation and the struggle for substantive democracy. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 169

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Education is never neutral and either suppresses or liberates communities — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 332; His revolutionary class critique is stripped from watered-down versions of Freire — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1409; Progressive professors most often risk engaged pedagogy as resistance