Educating for Critical Consciousness

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.

George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books and is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times philosophy column "The Stone."