Anti-Oppressive Education
- Anti-Oppressive Education
Anti-oppressive education encompasses multiple approaches to learning that actively challenge different forms of what proponents describe as oppression. [Swanson, Darlene. (2005) [http://www3.educ.sfu.ca/conferences/ierg2005/viewabstract.php?id=198 Anti-oppressive Education and Imagination: Living in the 'place of the impossible'.] ]
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Anti-oppressive education is premised on the notion that many traditional and commonsense ways of engaging in "education" actually contribute to oppression in schools and society. It also relies on the notion that many "commonsense" approaches to education reform mask or exacerbate oppressive educational methods. [Kumashiro, K. (2000) "Toward a Theory of Anti-Oppressive Education." "Review of Educational Research. 70"(1), 25-53.]
The consequences of anti-oppressive education include a deep commitment to changing how educators conceptualize and engage in curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management and school culture. [Kumshiro, K. (2004) "Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice." Routledge: New York.] There is also an implication that institutional structure and policies must be transformed. Exploring perspectives on education that do not conform to what has become "commonsense" must be partaken as well. Anti-oppressive education expects to be different, perhaps uncomfortable, and even controversial. [Lang, Pete. (2007) "Five Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations."]
ee also
*Teaching for social justice
*Sudbury model of democratic education
*Democratic schools
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