Week 5: Critical Pedagogies

February 26

Paulo Freire, “Education as the Practice of Freedom,” in Education for Critical Consciousness (Continuum: 1974) 

Rebecca Tarlau, “ Contentious Cogovernance and Prefiguration: A Framework for Analyzing Social Movement–State Relations in Public Education,” Educational Researcher (2021)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (2014)

Watch Ericka Huggins and Angela Davis, “Teaching as a Tool for Change” (video) [~1 hour]

Watch Ignacio Agüero, dir. Cien niños esperando un tren (1988) [55 min] 
**if you log in through Princeton Library, you can find a copy

Optional:

Wendy Brown, “Educating Human Capital,” in Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books: 2015)




Further reading:

Julie Davis, Survival Schools (University of Minnesota Press: 2013)

Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed (1974)

Plato, Gorgias

Raúl Zibechi, Territories in Resistance (AK Press: 2012)