The Tyranny of Learning Objectives

cover of Carter G. Woodson's "The Miseducation of the Negro," showing a Black woman with a shackle around her head

Fugitive Pedagogy

There's something to be said for being the kind of educator that authoritarians want to ban, if you can afford the risk.

Education and democracy

Aristotle described a broad education as one of the distinguishing characteristics of a free person but also of a free and independent mind, hence “liberal" education. Citizens in a democracy need education to free their mind.

an ad for women's studies from Univ of Michigan in the 1970s

What makes teaching feminist?

The core principles of feminist pedagogy are radically inclusive and democratic: An insistence that education be applicable to real struggles to liberate; An effort to make classroom spaces more egalitarian or democratic; and The validation of lived experience as a source of knowledge

Educating for Power: pedagogy at Highlander Folk School

Highlander was all about empowering marginalized, oppressed people to realize how much they actually already knew, to find solidarity with others around them, and to use their knowledge to bring about social change together.