Culturally responsive educators advocate for a greater emphasis on family and student voices that invoke their lived experiences, cultural knowledge, ancestral wisdom, supportive familial relationships. However, few know how to bring these stories directly K-12 classrooms. Using participatory action research methodology, I incorporated the counter-stories of students families in an elementary s...

This paper argues that Freire 's pedagogical ideas stand in marked reaction against a process of education characterised by prescription. In Freire 's view, such a process consolidates sharply defined power relations and therefore perpetuates oppressive social forms. It argues that contained in Freire 's pedagogy are the e lements for a model of an alternative society. In the first section, at ...

Formal courses in adult education are most often housed within schools or faculties that include other disciplines such as teacher education, psychology, or training and development. Adult educators teaching these courses may feel obligated to follow the procedures and practices of the institution as well as of the programs with which they are associated. This creates a set of paradoxes and con...

The historical failures of Marxism in the twentieth-century came in three forms: the inability to account for the rise of fascism and Nazism; the establishment of authoritarian regimes where “communist” revolutions had occurred, largely in pre-industrial societies from barely post-feudal Russia to peasant-based China and “developing” nations such as Vietnam; and the incapacity of the proletaria...

Abstract:  Three  decades  ago,  the  theory  of  education  took  a  critical  turn.  From  this perspective,  classroom  is  no  longer  a  public  sphere  of  cultural  assimilation  but  a  site  for identity struggle. The basic argument underlying such an approach is that education cannot be studied in isolation from an analysis of wider social and cultural influences. In such a context, t...

Critical librarianship, which critiques the role of libraries and information professionals in maintaining systems oppression, has been growing popularity profession, instructors Library Information Science (LIS) have begun to address critical librarianship their coursework. While pedagogy influenced approaches LIS education, intersection these two not as thoroughly addressed. Additionally, lit...