Revisiting the Intersection of Curriculum and Critical Literacy: A Flicker of Hope

• In Event: Witnessing Collective Hope and the Moreness of Education

Abstract

Ten years after we began researching and implementing how to teach curriculum in a critical and meaningful way, we reflect on, and speak back to, what we advocated at the time. We ascribed to Freire’s perspective of hope as a way to explore how educators might be empowered to teach a pedagogy of hope, while integrating critical literacy praxis with curriculum as conversation. Currently, we now believe these ideas and practices in our work have not gone far enough. We propose empowering teachers to build curriculum with their students and communities, taking into consideration the local context, their student demographics, and the national climate, all examined through a feminist, anti-racist, and a global lens, promoting equity and justice.

Authors

• Delane Ann Bender-Slack, Xavier University

• Angela M Miller-Hargis, University of Cincinnati