Critical literacy addresses injustices in our world and seeks to transform the world to make it a better place. So … More
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Critical Literacy: Is Performance Considered Action? 
Critical literacy seeks to transform our lives and the lives of others to support marginalized individuals. So teachers are called … More
Read the Dramatic Story of the Women’s Escape From Afghanistan
As you are aware, there will be challenges educating women in secondary school in many places in Afghanistan where adolescent … More
Three Afghan Women Fell Asleep Charging Their Phones and Missed the Plane Out of Kabul: Read About the Dramatic Events
Vietnam Redux: History of Oppression Repeats in Afghanistan
When I think of all the ways power and violence have been used to oppress people over the course of … More
Reduce Violence; Protect Human Rights in Honduras
All people can make a difference. In 1977, at Hope College in Holland Michigan, a group of students under the … More
Summary of Actions & Intentions with Praxis
To complete the cycle of critical literacy, one has to act in some way to transform the world to a … More
Challenges to Teaching ‘With’ Student Teachers
The idea of praxis, as Paulo Freire describes, is that a teacher can take action to genuinely transform a students’ … More
Power & the Spirit
Critical pedagogy or anything “critical” addresses issues of power. Two thousand years ago, this past Palm Sunday, when Jesus was … More
Democracy in the Classroom?
In Chapter 6 of Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks wrote about how criticism of feminism and Paulo Freire (critical pedagogy) … More