ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyze ways that everyone might be useful in their own work, explore the questions and uncertainties they raise, and then create the spaces for teaching and learning. Kevin Kumashiro argues then, that what everyone take to be common sense can vary over time and place, and therefore, that changing the world requires first naming the world and making visible the problems that often go unseen. In his two recent books, The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right has Framed the Debate on America's Schools and Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture. He presents his historical, discursive, and critical analyses of how they came to the moment, of why both the political Left and Right seem to buy into the same "common sens" of the problems and the purported solutions in education.
