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Urban Education

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2008

Urban education

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An Interview With Dr. Susan Szachowicz, Nancy Kleniewski, Susan Szachowicz Jun 2008

An Interview With Dr. Susan Szachowicz, Nancy Kleniewski, Susan Szachowicz

Bridgewater Review

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More Fully Human: Principals As Freirian Liberators, Brian R. Beabout Dec 2007

More Fully Human: Principals As Freirian Liberators, Brian R. Beabout

Brian R. Beabout

This article calls for an investigation into a new breed of urban school leadership consistent with Freirean notions of dialogue, praxis, and pedagogy (Freire, 1993) in work with youth. Critical theorists have called for educational practices that emphasize the political role that teachers and students play in the educational process. Their vision of education calls for students to locate themselves in the historical process that has left them with little to count on and to struggle against social reproduction that gives life to the inequality that is so pernicious in capitalist American society. The central question is: How can principals …