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Institutional Change
The Courage to Teach Critically: Anti-Oppresion and Pro-Justice Dialogues in the Classrooms
From: Educating for Action
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In this chapter, I share many important insights that I have gained as an educator in public school and university classrooms. There exist many examples of teachers who have the courage to teach critically and who have taken ownership of the classroom. These educators and their students are agents of change and remind us to be visionaries of a different world. This chapter presents teachable moments from the classroom where profound inquiry was required, initiatives were envisioned, and teaching objectives became exercises in self-reflection and self-empowerment. I fully understand that not everyone who reads this book is or will be a teacher. But working for justice is a systemic effort, and reforming our systems of teaching and learning is essential to creating a better world. The following narratives of self-reflective practice, pro-justice dialogues, and anti-oppression pedagogies are thus presented in a way that everyone can learn from. The basic point is to spark interrogation of your own educational experience and to understand how and why education can and should be an agent of social change.
Contributors
Rita Verma
Rita Verma, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Adelphi University in New York and Director of the Peace Studies Program. Dr. Verma is the author of Backlash: South Asian Voices on the Margins, and editor of Be the Change: Teacher, Activist, Global Citizen. Her work is also featured in numerous books and scholarly journals. She has worked with the United Nations and other human rights organizations on a variety of projects.
