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This article describes the author's motivations for and development of elements of radical, or engaged, pedagogy in upper-division political economy courses.

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In 1980, I was concluding my studies to become a teacher. I recall having participated in a course-unit in which groups of students gave presentations on different authors whose views influenced educational thinking. My choice fell on Jean Jacques Rousseau. I do recall, however, having listened to one presentation which focused on excerpts from a very intriguing text written by a Brazilian whose name remained etched in my memory. Whatever was being presented somehow captured my imagination. After graduation, I was posted at a school situated in a particular district of my home city, Valletta, and I found the going tough. Looking back I wonder whether my teaching would have been better served had the title Pedagogy of the Oppressed not remained simply an intriguing one and had the book not been earmarked as a 'must read' for the future, since my reading had then and in subsequent years been taken up by literary classics. ; peer-reviewed

How to teach young people about the grave ecological and social crises of our times without crushing their sense of possibility? The author has come to believe that the nature of these crises, together with a widespread weakening of civic and democratic culture, makes it irresponsible to teach young people about "the world as it is" without simultaneously giving them opportunities to develop capacities for collective agency. As increasing numbers of school districts cut civics courses out of the high school curriculum altogether, students bring to their college studies little formal schooling about social change, and almost no practical experience of what it might mean to participate in the cocreation of the world. In short, they come to the overwhelming crises we would teach them about with a very shaky faith that social change is possible. There is an acute need for colleges and universities to innovate engaged pedagogies, creating a culture that cultivates, as one student put it, "the knowledge of where to begin to make a difference." Here, the author discusses Community Reengagement for Arizona Families, Transitions, and Sustainability, a powerful 3-year-old initiative at Northern Arizona University. Participating students show increased self-confidence, capacity for shared learning, and a strong sense that meaningful change is possible through collective action.

Globally, higher education is at a crossroads on so many levels: funding, course development, who our students are, what knowledge is relevant for the world of work and beyond, what kinds of students do we want to graduate, and who are we as educators. All these questions (and more) have been around for some time; the current COVID-19 context however brings them even more sharply to the fore.
This paper responds to the prompt about how we train professionals for the future so that they don't participate in systems of oppression and inequality. It was written in 2017 in response to a conference on social and epistemic justice in the wake of the 2015 student protest movements and was written collaboratively by an intergenerational group of educators working on a course in the Engineering and Built Environment (EBE) Faculty at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. All of us have a strong commitment to social justice, and to providing engineering students with an opportunity to think about their professional identity through the lens of community engagement. While written before the onset of COVID-19, we believe that the arguments we make are pertinent to the current context. Drawing on the Honors' thesis of one member of our group, we sought to reflect on and analyze our work in this context. In particular, the principles of multi-centricity, indigeneity and reflexivity (Dei, 2014) proved useful in making sense of our practice and our work together.

Citation: Fritch, Melia Erin (2018) "Teaching as a Political Act: Critical Pedagogy in Library Instruction," Educational Considerations: Vol. 44: No. 1. https://doi.org/10.4148/0146-9282.1868 ; This article establishes a theoretical framework for critical library instruction (and thereby critical information literacy) that is built upon critical feminist theory, critical race theory, and engaged pedagogy, among others. Using the ideas and work of theorists to create a path linking the ideas of critical analyses together, the author demonstrates the importance and need for critical information literacy within library instruction to empower students, creating opportunities for lifelong learning. Noted within the article are the obstacles for librarians who focus on feminist engaged pedagogy in their teaching; however, the author shares with readers that the challenge is in fact worth the struggle. Overall, the article presents a theoretical foundation for the author's call to action – it's time for librarians to move forward as teachers-as-activists roles and use library instruction as a transformation into a lifelong learning experience for students.

Resenha de: hooks, bell. Ensinando a transgredir: a educação como prática da liberdade. Tradução: Marcelo Brandão Cipolla. São Paulo: Editora Martins Fontes. 2017.

Using exploratory, qualitative interviews, the authors studied conceptions of academic service-learning in the United States and the Republic of Ireland in order to elucidate the ways in which culture and social context shaped practitioners' perceptions and practices regarding service-learning pedagogy. Participants articulated a shared understanding of service-learning, identified similar barriers to utilizing service-learning and institutionalizing its practice, and discussed tensions surrounding the purpose of service-learning. However, Irish participants distanced their practice from the historical and cultural context of U.S. service-learning, demonstrating the process of localization. We conclude that the overarching tenets of service-learning may be transferable but the social, cultural, economic, historical, and political conditions of individual countries define how these are to be achieved.