Literacy as Resistance; Resistance as Literacy: An Essay Review
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" …the truth…involves honesty, courage and a readiness to break ranks. " ~ Terry Eagleton Imagine a large-scale public education project operating on the theoretical and practical assumptions that: (1) we are confronted with multiple crises emerging from current institutional directions, historical trajectories, intellectual traditions, and structural requisites that urgently demand new sets of pedagogical priorities and actions rooted in new standards and new struggles for peace, substantive freedom and equality, ecological
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