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I begin with Peter Murrell, a most striking quote from “Culture, Cognition, and the Community of Achievement”: The life force of pedagogy is not determined by policy or principles, but by practices. It matters not that the faculty of an under-performing urban school decides to be “multicultural” or “antiracist” as a matter of principle or [...]

On Definitions and Language

[Children] don’t have the vocabulary to express what they see… – James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers” …young people learn through research about complex power relations, histories of struggle, and the consequences of oppression. They begin to re-vision and denaturalize the realities of their social worlds and then undertake forms of collective challenge based on [...]