Pedagogies of Liberation: Race, Gender, and Class(rooms)

Harvard FAS

"Pedagogies of Liberation" is preparation and accompaniment for new teachers who teach (anything!). We read selected works by exemplary pedagogues: Friedrich Schiller, María Montessori, John Dewey, W.B. Du Bois, R. Tagore, Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, José Vasconcelos, Gabriela Mistral, Albert Cullum among others. These pedagogical pioneers display a remarkable coherence in theory and in practices that somehow remain “alternative” to less effective but normalized approaches. They share a…