ABSTRACT

Desmond Tutu, the chairperson of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, reminds us that we must be prepared to “[look] the beast of the past in the eye . . . in order not to allow it to imprison us” (Tutu, 1998, p. 22). We, too, must be prepared to look ourselves in the eye. Enter the pedagogy of memory and the idea of how memory and the past can be a productive learning space for the present and the future.