ABSTRACT
Critical pedagogy uncovers or otherwise identifies the enduring historical forces in educational discourses, practices and values. These discourses, practices and values have been transformed over time and their common-sense outcome in many instances has been historically relativized to encourage us to see what is not there. Critical pedagogy will remain a vital force in shaping the future of our collective commons when teachers assume the role of public intellectuals, of social activists, of political protagonists who are able to work with the insight that what happens inside the classroom cannot be disconnected from what is happening in the local community, the school district, and the wider precincts of democracy, including state and federal levels of governance—all the way to transnational movements for change. So far critical pedagogy has shown itself to be durable and enduring. It will survive and continue to develop in the coming years, as the struggle for a democratic socialism becomes more fierce and fraught with danger.
