I went to school with all of my treasures, including my Spanish language, Mexican culture,
familia (family), and ways of knowing. I abandoned my treasures at the classroom door in …

Empowerment of youth, particularly in urban settings, is critical to addressing issues of social
injustice. Programs that support the development of empowerment, or action taken by an …

While the need for humanising education is pressing in neoliberal societies, the conditions
for its possibility in formal institutions have become particularly cramped. A constellation of …

Humanizing pedagogies present a promising framework for contesting dehumanizing
practices all too common in US urban schools. To co-construct such pedagogies, however …

In this paper I shift the center of utopian debates away from questions of ideology towards
the question of power. As a new point of departure, I analyze Foucault's notion of biopower …

In an effort to understand the power that exists for those working in schools, the constructs of
social privilege and social capital were empirically examined in order to understand their …

An essay is presented on the pedagogy of trace in teaching resilience/resistance in arts
education. It explores the pedagogy of trace investigation using a poetic transcription of the …

This article examines the fundamental reasons for educational research and practice in
social justice from evolutionary, ideological and philosophical viewpoints. The tension …

The transnational political landscape has been reconfigured, over the past couple of
decades, in ways that have significant implications—both challenges and possibilities—for …

Examining the still underexplored elements in educational theorist Paulo Freire's work, this
essay begins from his claim that problem‐posing pedagogy works as a “kind of …