ABSTRACT
Although the past twenty years in the United States has seen enormously repressive legislation enacted in the name of “security” or to guarantee that “no child will be left behind,” radical political struggles have gained intensity to resist the neo-liberal era that we find ourselves currently in today (Day 2004). But, as two scholars in the field of education, anarchist theory excites us in ways that other radical theories have been unable to capture. Unfortunately, anarchist theory has been omitted when scholars have conceptualized radical pedagogies in education. Although education, we would argue, has always been an integral component to anarchist theory, it has been glaringly overlooked in how we have conceptualized “critical theory” in education. In education, the dominant radical paradigm is critical pedagogy.
