Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an...

There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If they learn...

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the...

Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as “sinkhole” when opposing funding for Chicago’s children. “We can’t keep throwing money,” said Governor Thompson in 1988, “into a black hole.” The Chicago Tribune...

If we are free to delete all inconvenient data we shall certainly have no theological difficulties; but for the same reason no solutions and no progress…. The troublesome fact, the apparent absurdity which can’t be...

school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don’t remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes,...

From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar:”Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country? Is it possible to carry the...

Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the...

Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn’t understand the reference to a salon. Victor explains that this is...

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire’s apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

Can anyone capable of genuinely appreciating Mozart and Mizoguchi possibly say that he is not, in that respect, immeasurably better off than someone whose cultural horizon is limited to bingo and The Black and White...

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Jak skvělí jsme bývali pedagogové, když jsme se o pedagogiku pranic nestarali!

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children’s play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience,...