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Liberatory Practices for Learning

Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom

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Editors:
  1. Julio Cammarota

    1. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  • First work to deconstruct individualism and review its impact on educational reforms for the past 50 years
  • Provides an overview of the history of individualism in education in the United States
  • Offers alternatives to education by advocating for time-tested cultural beliefs in collaborative learning and collective being

Part of the book series: Postcolonial Studies in Education (PCSE)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: We Already Know

    • Julio Cammarota
    Pages 1-18

  3. Living Praxes and Principles in PAR EntreMundos

    • Margarita Berta-Ávila, Melissa Rivera, Jennifer Ayala, Julio Cammarota
    Pages 19-45

  4. Spill the Tea

    • Jihee Yoon, Leilani Gomez, Julliette Gonzales, Ricardo Martinez, Karla Torres, Vijay Williams et al.
    Pages 47-68

  5. Mathematics with Open Arms

    • Ricardo Martinez, Heather Lindfros-Navarro, Melissa Adams Corral
    Pages 69-91

  6. I Am Because We Are

    • Alade S. McKen
    Pages 93-110

  7. Reclaiming Our Excellence

    • Louie F. Rodriguez, Arturo Nevárez
    Pages 111-138

  8. Conclusion: Dreaming Between Worlds

    • Julio Cammarota, Jennifer Ayala, Melissa Rivera, Margarita Berta-Ávila
    Pages 139-151

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 153-154
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About this book

This book promotes collaborative ways of knowing and group accountability in learning processes to counteract the damaging effects of neoliberal individualism prevalent in educational systems today. These neoliberalist hierarchies imposed through traditional, autocratic knowledge systems have driven much of the United States’ educational policies and reforms, including STEM, high stakes testing, individual-based accountability, hierarchical grading systems, and ability grouping tracks. The net effect of such policies and reforms is an education system that perpetuates social inequalities linked with race, class, gender, and sexuality. Instead, the author suggests that accountability pushes past individualism in education by highlighting democratic methods to produce a collective good as opposed to a narrow personal success. In this democratic model, participants contribute to the common goal of elevating the entire group. Drawing from a well of creative praxes, reflexivity, and spiritual engagement, contributors incorporate collective dreaming to envision alternate realities of learning and schooling and summon the spirit into action for change.

Reviews

“The contributors to this volume are high school students, graduate students, former classroom teachers, and new and seasoned scholars who offer a powerful collection of liberatory practices that are grounded in cooperation, collaboration, and collectivity. It’s a must-read for those interested in disrupting neo-liberal education and reimagining pedagogies that are simultaneously grounded in ancient wisdoms and in new ways of existing with each other.”
—Dolores Delgado Bernal, Department Chair and Professor, Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

 “I am thankful for Cammarota's explicit challenge to the lies of liberalism, merit, and white supremacy. His offerings on education for liberation are reflective of a collective process that has been purposely stolen from us. In our reclamation, he reminds us of the necessity and duty to return to what we've already known.”
—David Stovall, Professor of African-American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Julio Cammarota

About the editor

Julio Cammarota is Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, USA. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Liberatory Practices for Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom

  • Editors: Julio Cammarota

  • Series Title: Postcolonial Studies in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56685-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56684-5Published: 19 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56687-6Published: 19 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56685-2Published: 18 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2339

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2347

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 154

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Postcolonial Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Alternative Education

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