ABSTRACT

In this politically and democratically urgent collection, George Yancy and contributors argue that more than ever, we are in need of classrooms that function "dangerously"—that is, classrooms where people are not afraid to engage in critical discussions that call into question difficult political times. Collectively they demonstrate the ways activist authors and scholars must be prepared to engage in risk and vulnerability as a defense of our democratic right to practice forms of pedagogical transgression. Ideal for scholars and students of critical pedagogy, philosophy of education, and political theory, this collection delineates the necessity of critical consciousness through education, and provides ways of speaking back against authoritarian control of imaginative and critical capacities.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

The Urgency of Refusing Adjustment

chapter 4|14 pages

The Worry Well

Teaching in These Ignominious Times

chapter 5|22 pages

Teaching Students Systemic Racism Theory and Autopathy

The Age of White Nationalism

chapter 7|11 pages

A Season of Light and Darkness

On Education and President Donald J. Trump

chapter 8|19 pages

Complicating Resistance

Intersectionality, Liberation, and Democracy

chapter 9|18 pages

Educating for Democracy

Lessons from the Life of Myles Horton

chapter 10|19 pages

The Beast Behind the Wall

Critical Teaching in Terrible Times

chapter 11|11 pages

“Do Something Ethical”

Critical Thinking, Theorizing, and Political Will

chapter 12|20 pages

Education for Democracy

The Daunting Task Before Us

chapter 13|14 pages

Truth and (Trump’s) Method

The Instability of Critical Thinking in Education