Liberatory Practices for Learning

Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-56684-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

Reihe: Postcolonial Studies in Education

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States’ educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cammarota, Julio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Privatschulen, alternative Schulformen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: We Already Know.- 2. Living Praxes and Principals.- 3. Spill the Tea.- 4. Mathematics with Open Arms.- 5. I Am Because We Are.- 6. Reclaiming Our Excellence.- 7. Conclusion: Dreaming Between Worlds.

Über Autor(innen)

Julio Cammarota is Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, USA. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy.