Liberatory Practices for Learning

Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom

Buch | Hardcover

XXIII, 154 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-56684-5 (ISBN)

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This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States' educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.

Julio Cammarota is Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, USA. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy.

1. Introduction: We Already Know.- 2. Living Praxes and Principals.- 3. Spill the Tea.- 4. Mathematics with Open Arms.- 5. I Am Because We Are.- 6. Reclaiming Our Excellence.- 7. Conclusion: Dreaming Between Worlds.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.12.2020
Reihe/Serie	Postcolonial Studies in Education
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 154 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Schlagworte	Collaborative Learning • Collectivism • Indigenous knowledge • Individualism • participatory action research
ISBN-10	3-030-56684-6 / 3030566846
ISBN-13	978-3-030-56684-5 / 9783030566845
Zustand	Neuware